Annotation:Mrs. Fitzhubert's Fancy
X:1 T:Mrs. Fitzhubert's Fancy M:C| L:1/8 R:Strathspey S:William Winter music manuscript (1850, Somerset) K:D F|D>EF>G A>df>e|d>BA>F EE2F|D>EF>A...
MRS. FITZHUBERT'S FANCY. English(?), Scottish(?); Strathspey(?). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mrs. Fitzhubert's Fancy" was entered 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. The tune is contained in a small section of Scottish tunes. It has dotted rhythms throughout, although not the distinctive 'Scots Snap' dotted-eight-note-sixteenth-note (and then the reverse) syncopation so characteristic of a strathspey; the 'snap' is represented in the tune by an uncharacteristic eighth-note-quarter-note combination.
