Annotation:Happy Meeting (1) (The)
X:1 T:Happy Meeting [1], The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance & Jig B: Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - Compleat Collection of 200 Favourtie Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1788, No. 105, p. 53) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D D2d AFD|B2B B3|Bcd AFD|E2E E3| D2d AFD|B2B B2g|fed ABc|d2d d3:| |:a2a afd|B2B B3|B2d AFD|E2E E3| a2a afd|B2B B3|Bcd AFD|TE3 D3:|]
HAPPY MEETING [1], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in the John Fife music manuscript collection of c. 1780. Fife was a musician thought to have been from Perthshire, who also may have made entries at sea (there are references to battles in the Caribbean & the Mediterranean). Playford's "Happy Meeting (2) (The)" is a different tune.
