Annotation:Barbarini's Tambourine
X:1 T:Barbarini's Tambourine M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:John Walsh - Fourth Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1747, p. 112) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D f/g/|ad dd|de ef|{g}fe/f/ gf/e/d/|eA Af/g/| ad dd|de ef|{g}fe/f/ g/f/e/d/|e3:| |:c/d/|eA AA|A3 d/e/|ad dg/a/|fB BB|B3 e/f/| gc cf/g/|bg c'a|d'c'/b/ ag| {g}fe/d/ {f}ed/c/|{e}dc/B/ AG|Fd Ec|D3||
BARBARINI'S TAMBOURINE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in London publisher John Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances, Book the Fourth (c. 1745) and editions of his Compleat Country Dancing-Master. Volume the Fourth (London, 1747, p. 112). The title refers to Barbara Campanini [1] (1721-1799), La Barbarina, a renowned ballerina and actress on the Continent, who toured London in the early 1740's.
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Frederick eventually pardoned Cocceji, and even appointed him district governor at Glogau in Silesia, where the couple lived until they separated in 1759. They divorced in 1788 and she purchased the Barschau estate in Silesia, and was given the title of Countess von Barschau. During her last years, she turned her estates into a charitable institution for impovershed noble ladies.