Annotation:Lady Holderness's Jigg

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X:1 T:Lady Holderness's Jigg M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A aed cBA|eBA GFE|FAd cea|dec B3| aed cBA|eBA GFE|FAd cea|gaf e3:| |:bge dcB|cBA cBA|eBG EGB|d2e cBA| a2e cBA|e2A GFE|FAd cBA|TB3 A3:||

LADY HOLDERNESS'S JIG. English, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared in print in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (London, 1751). Lady Holderness was blackballed from the assembly rooms at Almacks by the clique of aristocratic matrons who held power there in the 1760's, for some unknown infraction. Perhaps it was for her smuggling of 114 gowns and other prohibited finery from Paris, where she had travelled in the company of her husband, Lord Holderness, on state matters.

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Printed sources : - Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 11.

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