Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 20th 2004 by hetty.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as Henrico, Jacob.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Enrico
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A |: d2fe dcdB | ABAG F2A2 | d2f2 gfgf | e2a2 a2fe |
d2fe dcdB | ABAG F2A2 | B2gf edec | d2f2 d2z2 :|
|: a2ag fgfe | dedc B2B2 | g2gf efed | cdcB A2Bc |
d2d2 cecA | d2d2 cecA | B2gf edec | d2f2 d2z2 :|
This tune has been requested. Also known as jacob and as far as I know it is not Irish. I have it as an English Polka, could get more info from friends.
# Posted on March 20th 2004 by hetty
Enrico or Jacob
To be found in the Hardy Manuscipts....the handwritten music of the father of the novelist Thoman Hardy.
# Posted on March 20th 2004 by alexboydell
I think this is a morris tune from dorset. I think.
# Posted on October 11th 2007 by mehitabel23
Sounds nice...
with a swing. To me, at least.
# Posted on October 12th 2007 by muspc
Enrico
Nothing to with morris dancing: the Dorset connection is a reference to Thomas Hardy (fiddler and novelist). He apparently gave it the alternative name Jacob. There are similar versions in the Sussex Tune Book ("The Henryco") and on the FARNE website (Northumberland: "Henrico"), where the name seems to have been "Anglicised". That name and the melodic structure strongly suggest an 18th century (stage?) origin - i.e. pre-polka. I suppose you could polka to it if you wanted, but the FARNE description of it as "country dance & reel & hornpipe" shows an admirable reluctance to pigeon-hole it!
# Posted on December 6th 2009 by phil heheir