Annotation:Lady Worsley's Fancy
X: 1 T:Lady Worsleys Fancy %R: march, reel B: Chas & Sam Thompson "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1779", London 1779, p.82 #2 F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1779 Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> (added dance description) M: 2/4 L: 1/8 F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1779/Thompson/alltunes.abc K: A % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ Aacd | e>feA | GABc | d2c2 |\ Aacd | e>fea | ge {g}fe/^d/ | e2E2 :| |:\ ae {d}cB/A/ | GAB2 | ce {d}cB/A/ | e2E2 |\ ae {d}cB/A/ | G>AB>d | c/e/c/A/ {c}BA/G/ | A2A,2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% Hey contrary sides .|. then on %% your own sides :|. hands 6 round .|: %% lead thro' the 3d Cu & cast up lead %% thro' the 2d Cu. and cast off :|: %%endtext
LADY WORSLEY'S FANCY. AKA - "Lady Wrottesley's Fancy." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered (as "Lady Wrottesley's Fancy") in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England. Musician Jeremiah Brown, of Seabrook, N.H., entered it into his c. 1782 music copybook as "Lady Wrottisly's Fancy."
