Annotation:Fairlight Down
X:1 T:Fairlight Down M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:A Young Lady – “A Collection of Country Dances and Waltzes” (c. 1797, No. 5, p. 7) N:According to a Ms. note on the Royal Academy of Music Library copy, the N:composer is Miss Newberry B:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080945051&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G V:1 D|GAG BdB|GAG BdB|cBA AGF|FED DEF| GAG BdB|GAG BdB|cAF AFD|[B,3G3] z2|| d|dcB e2d|dcB A2B|cBA d2c|cBA B2g| gag fgf|efe ded|cac AfA|[B3g3]z2|| V:2 clef=bass z|[G,,3G,3]G,3|G,3G,3|[D,,3D,3]D,3|[B,,3D,3][B,,3D,3]| |[G,,3G,3]G,3|[G,,3G,3]G,3|D,3D,3|G,3G,,2|| z|z2 z [G,3B,3E3]|[A,3C3E3][A,2C2E2]z|z2z [F,3A,3D3]|[G,3B,3D3] [G,3B,3D3]| [E,3E3][D,3D3]|[C,3C3][B,,3B,3]|[C,3C3][D,3D3]|G,3G,,2||
FAIRLIGHT DOWN. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Fairlight Down" is a jig contained in a small volume of original tunes entitled A Collection of Country Dances and Waltzes (c. 1797), composed anonymously by "A Young Lady", however, according to a Ms. note on the Royal Academy of Music Library copy, the composer was a Miss Newberry. Since many of the titles are named for Sussex and its locales, it can be assumed Miss Newberry was a resident of the county. "Fairlight Down" is the name of a 175m (574 ft.) height in the South Downs, near the village of Fairlight in East Sussex. The tune (as "Fairlight Down") was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.
