Annotation:Much ado about Nothing
X: 1 T:Much ado about Nothing. JJo5.001 M:6/8 L:1/8 B:J.Johnson Choice Collection Vol 5, 1750 Z:vmp.Mike Hicken 2015 www.village-music-project.org.uk Q:3/8=120 F:http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Johnson/JohnsonVol5(Mar15).abc K:G G2G, G2 G,|GAB cBA|G2G,G2G,|GBG AFD| G2G,G2G,|GAB cBA|BdB cAF|G3- G3 :| |:gdB G2B|Aag {g}"tr"fef|gdB G2B|Eed "tr"^c>Bc| d2Dd2D|def gfe|faf gec"^sic"|cAG FED:| |:{a}"tr"g>fg {a}"tr"g>fg|{a}"tr"g>fg dBG|{a}"tr"g>fg {a}g>fg|gbg afd| {a}"tr"g>fg {a}"tr"g>fg|{a}"tr"g>fg dBG|ce2 Bd2|ABG FED :|
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8) G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The melody first appears in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1750). It also appears in Richard Baldwin's periodical London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer of October, 1756 (p. 501). "Much Ado about Nothing" also appears in the music copybooks of London musicians Walter Rainstorp (begun in 1747) and Thomas Hammersley (1790).
