Rufty Tufty

Barndance · 4/4 · G major

Rufty Tufty is an English country dance tune first published in the 1651 first edition of John Playford's The Dancing Master. Set in G major and 4/4 time as a lively barndance, it features a brisk and upbeat character well-suited for spirited social dancing. Because its exact earlier origins remain uncertain, the tune is best known through its foundational place in the seventeenth-century English revival of country dance repertoire.

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