Annotation:Downie's Rigadon

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 DOWNIE'S RIGADON. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The 'A' part is eight and the 'B' part six measures long. A rigadon or rigaudon was a 16th century French dance was a hopping step that also became popular in England, although by the latter 18th century it had begun to wane. However it was usually in duple meter, not the 6/8 time of McGlashan's melody.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: McGlashan (A Collection of Scots Measures Hornpipes Jigs Allemands, Cotillions And all the fashionable Country Dances with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord), c. 1780; p. 23.  Recorded sources:

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