Annotation:Shapron (The)
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SHAPRON, THE. AKA - "Chaperone (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Shapron" (i.e. "The Chaperone") was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England. Geoff Woolfe notes that title was unclear in the ms. copy. Compare with "Russe (1) (La)," a similar tune in the 1-2 and 5-6 measures of the first strain.
