Annotation:Miss Campbell's Fancy
X:1 T:Miss Campbell’s Fancy C:William Campbell M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Campbell – “Campbell’s 12th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & B:Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as B:Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms” (Soho, London, c. 1797, p. 5) F: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9a/IMSLP655932-PMLP1052069-campbells12thboo00camp.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb V:1 E|(D/E/F) B>F DFB,G|(F/E/D) B,F E(CC)F|D/E/F B,>F DFB,G|(F/G/A/B/) cf dBB:| c|dBfB d(BB)c|dBfB g(cc)e|dBfB ABGB|FBAc d(BB)c| dBfB d(BB)c|dBfB gcce|dBfB gBfB|ec{e}d{c}B FBB|| V:2 clef = bass z|B,,2D,2B,,2E,2|B,,2D,2C,2F,2|B,,2D,2B,,2E,2|F,2F,,2B,,3:| z|B,,2D,2F,D,D,E,|[B,,2F,2][B,,2D,2][C,2E,2][F,,2F,2]|[B,,2B,2][D,2D2][F,2F2][E,2E2]|[D,2D2][F,,2F,2] [B,,2B,2]B,,2| [B,,2B,2][D,2B,2]F,D,D,E,|F,D,F,D, G,E,A,F,|[B,,2B,2][D,2D2][E,2E2][D,2D2]|[F,2F2]F,2 [B,,3B,3]||
MISS CAMPBELL'S FANCY. English, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Campbell's Fancy" was composed by music publisher and fiddler William Campbell who named it perhaps after a sister or daughter. As a music publisher, Campbell was active in Soho, London, from c. 1778 to c. 1815, issuing country dance collections every year.
