Annotation:Paysanne (La)
X:1 T:Paysanne, La M:6/8 L:1/8 N:First tune in a quadrille set S:Analysis of the London Ball-Room (1825) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|d2c d2e|{de}f2e d2c|{c}B2e {d}c2a|gfe d2A| d2c d2e|{de}f2e d2c|cBe {d}cBc|e2d|| fga|a2g efg|g2f gfe|e>fe e2e|e2e fga| a2g efg|g2f agf|ege dcB|A3 A/c/B/d/c/e/|| K:Dmin d3 f3|A3 fed|e3g3|A3 gfe| ^cAe dAf|e^cg fda|fag fed|a3 A=B^c||
PAYSANNE, LA (The Peasant). French, English; Jig. D Major (‘A’ and ‘B’ parts), D Minor (‘C’ part). ABCAB. The first tune (of six) in "Paine's First Set of Quadrilles," "as danced at Almack's." There were other "First Sets," with the original "First Set of Quadrilles" being the work of Jean-Baptiste Hullin, a successful choreographer and ballet dancer, who originated them in 1797. They were hugely popular. Paine was a London dancing master, either James Paine or Edward Payne, both contemporaries in London in the first decades of the 19th century, when the French dance took hold in England. However, it was James Paine's quadrilles that also became known as "the first set of quadrilles publicly danced at Almacks." The melody appears as the first tune in a quadrille set in the music manuscript copybook of fiddler John Burks, dated 1821. Unfortunately, nothing is known of Burks, although his ms. has an English provenance.
