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The following are tunes extant in North America before 1800. They come from various sources, though you can find most of them in Samual Bayard's book Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife: Instrumental Folk Tunes in Pennsylvania. The numbers are the tune numbers in Bayard.

Reels (from Bayard)
  • Old Molly Hare (52)
  • Rickett's Hornpipe (165)
  • Gilderoy (169)
  • The White Cockade (174)
  • The Jay Bird (176)
  • The Blackbird (177)
  • Black-eyed Susie (185)
  • Over the Hills and Far Away (206)
  • The Squirrel Hunters (220)
  • Cuckoo's Nest (292)
  • College Hornpipe (310)
  • My Love She's But a Lassie Yet (323)
  • Mississippi Sawyer/Downfall of Paris (329)
  • Soldier's Joy (332)
  • The Girl I Left Behind Me (338)
  • Flowers of Edinburgh (340)
  • Moniemusk (343)
  • Fisher's Hornpipe (345)
  • Paddy on the Turnpike (347)

Jigs (from Bayard)
  • The Irish Washerwoman (446)
  • Haste to the Wedding (447)
  • Top of Cork Road (450)
  • Over the River to Charlie (555)
  • Captain Collins (567)
  • Cock of the North (580)
  • O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? (602)
  • Rosin the Beau (620)
  • The Scotch Laddie/Garryowen (632)
  • Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning (633)
French-Canadian
  • La Bastringue
  • Moneymusk
  • La Dance du Barbier/Le Dance du Solage
  • Le Brandy
  • Le Grande Gigue Simple/Red River Jig

Additional Tunes
  • Jefferson & Liberty
  • Rakes of Mallow
  • Rose Tree
Some Tunes Cruzatte Probably Didn't Play--most don't appear until several decades later.
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • Forked Deer
  • Ragtime Annie
  • Turkey in the Straw

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