Annotation:Mrs. Savage's Whim

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 MRS. SAVAGE'S WHIM. English, Country Dance Tune (3/2 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune dates to 1713 when it was published by John Young in the second volume of the Dancing Master. Young was the successor to John and Henry Playford (father and son) for the long-running series which began in 1651. In fact, notes Graham Christian (writing in CDSS News, issue #189, March/April 2006) the dance figues were not new but had appeared a decade earlier with a Purcell melody from his opera Bonduca, but were married to a new tune for the 1713 volume. Walsh printed the tune in his Complete Country Dancing Master, vol. 2 (1736, p. 144).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Barron (The Fair Quaker of Larchmont), 1992. Fallibroome Collection, vol. 1.  Recorded sources: Bare Necessities, vol. 7 - "By Request."

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