Ballet Hollandoise (La)

X:1 T:Ballet Hollandoise, La M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynnian Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G d2c BAG|AGF G2D|d2c BAG|AGF G3::ABG ABG|ABG A2A|c2B A2G|F2E D3| ABG ABG|ABG A2A|c2B A2G|AGF G3::g2g f2f|e2e def|gag fed|ed^c d3:|
 * dBG dBG|dBG A2B|c2B A2G|F2E D3|GBd GBd|GcB dgf|g2c BAG|AGF G3:||



BALLET HOLLANDOISE, LA . English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AABBCCDD. The EASMES site lists the first appearance of this melody in B. Andrez's periodical L'Echo, ou Journal de Musique francoise, published in Leige, Belgium, in 1758. The melody next appears in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773), followed by Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775) and Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred and Four Reels...Country Dances (London, 1780). EASMES also lists a printing in M. Landrin's Potpourri Francois de Contre Danse Ancienne (Paris, 1780). "Ballet Hollandoise" was entered into the music manuscript copybooks of fiddlers George White (1790, Cherry Valley, N.Y.), and John and William Pitt Turner (1788, Norwich, Conn.). Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 113. __NORICHEDITOR__