Annotation:North Aston Frolic
X: 1 T:North Ashton Frolick. Ru2.112 L:1/8 B:RUTHERFORD Complete Collection of 200 Country Dances Vol.2; 1759. Z:vmp.Mike Hicken 2015 www.village-music-project.org.uk N: * These three notes are not shown as a triplet in the original but have been changed to give the correct repeat. M:6/8 Q:3/8=110 K:G "*"(3D/E/F/|G2D G2D|GAB cBA|B2G B2G|Bcd edc| dcB ABG|FGE D2c|BGB AFD|G3-G2 :| |: f|gfg efg|abg fed|gfg efg|fge d3| cBc acA|BAB gfe|dcB AGF G3 G2 :| W: W: The first & 2d Cu: foot it & turn Partners .| W: The first Man foots it to the 2d Wo. his Partner to W: the 2d Man at the same time and turn :| W: Gallop down one Cu: up again & cast off .|. W: Right & Left at top :|.
NORTH ASTON FROLICK. AKA - "North Ashton Frolic." English, Jig (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Rutherford): AABBCC (Seattle). The tune was published in London by John Johnson (1751), John Walsh [1] (1754), Newbury (1754), and David Rutherford (1760): Johnson, as "North Aston Frolick" and Walsh and Rutherford as "North Ashton Frolick". The jig also was entered into the music manuscript collections of Walter Rainstorp (London, c. 1747), William Vickers (1770), James Biggins (Leeds, 1779), and Thomas Hammersley (London, c. 1790), and Connecticut keyboard player John Ives (c. 1800). Most of the tunes are in binary form, but Seattle's version is in three parts.
There are North Ashtons in England in Oxfordshire and Lancashire, and there are probably others as well.
