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X:1 T:King's Jig [1], The T:In Winchester Was A Wedding M:9/8 L:1/8 R:(Slip) jig S:Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times O:English Z:Eric Root N:Transposed from B-flat K:A A,|CDEF2E ECA,|CDEA2FB2B,|CDEF2E ECE| FGA BGEA2A,|CDEF2E ECA,|CDE AGFB2B,| CDEF2E ECE|FGA BGEA2||:f|efc e2AB2F| BcdF2BG2E|AFD FAF BGc|FGAA2GA2:|



KING'S JIG [1], THE. AKA and see "At Winchester Was a Wedding," "Winchester Wedding (2) (The)." English, Air (9/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune appears in Playford's Dancing Master (1686 and later editions), Walsh & Hare's Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718), Pills to Purge Melancholy, 180 Loyal Songs, and many of the ballad operas of the early 18th century. The alternate title comes from a ballad written to the tune by Thomas D'Urfey and published in 1684. Chappell (1859) says "jigs were danced by persons of all ranks during the latter half of the seventeenth century; and this having been published as 'The King's Jig', during the life of Charles II, we may suppose it to be one of the tunes to which his Majesty danced."


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Printed sources : - Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2), 1859; pp. 49-50.






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