Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on July 9th 2011 by Mix O'Lydian.
This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jenny Pluck Pears
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
|:A2A B3/2c/2d|c3/2B/2A G2E|A2A B3/2c/2d|c3/2B/2A G2E|
e2e d2B|c3/2B/2A G2E|F3/2G/2A G3/2F/2G|A3 A3:|
M: 3/4
A2e2d2|c4B2|A2e2d2|c4B2|
A2e2d2|c3 BA2|G3 FG2|A6||
Adapted from the notation of the tune in John Playford's "English Dancing Master", published in London, 1651.
Note the change of metre from 6/8 to 3/4 in the "B" part.
.. Here's a rendering of the tune by the Jig Mad Wolf Ceilidh Band, playing at the Chipping Sodbury Festival, South Glos, England:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAuN1aM8CV4
Most of the dancers nearest to the band are visitors from France. Considering that they'd probably never done that dance before, and also had to cope with instructions given in English, I reckon that they did pretty well ...
# Posted on July 9th 2011 by Mix O'Lydian
Funny timing
just played this at a ceilidh tonight on Swedish Bagpipes.. fit's rather well.. nice dance too.. quite old apparently and rather courtly.. I think it's Playford originally..?
# Posted on July 11th 2011 by paulflute
Glad you found a use for the tune, paul flute.
Yes indeed, first published by Thomas Playford in 1651, as I said in my initial post ...
So presumably the tune is older than the above date !
# Posted on July 14th 2011 by Mix O'Lydian