Touch and Take
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Touch and Take", also known as "Oaken Leaves" is an English Country Dance<br> tune in 6/8 time (6/4 time in Playford) and G Major. There is one part repeated.<br> The tune was originally printed by John Playford in The Dancing Master,<br> second edition (1652), under the title "Touch and Take" and retained under that<br> title for editions 3a (1657) and 3b (1665).<br> Later dance researchers and reconstructionists (such as Cecil Sharp) sometimes<br> exchanged dance directions for a tune that they preferred instead of the one<br> Playford printed with the tune. Karpeles & Schofield list this tune as "'Oaken<br> Leaves' to the tune of 'Touch and Take'".<br> It was printed in<br> Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985) and<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951).<br>
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