X:1
T:Polonese [1], The
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Polonese or Jig
N:Under section of "Dances, 1787".
B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1788, p. 21)
B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - 24 Country Dances for the Year 1787 (London, 1787, p. 21)
N:"As they are Perform'd at Court, Bath and all Publick Assemblys."
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
d|gfg d2c|BAB G2A|Bcd dcB|B3-A2d|
gfg dgb|aga def|egf ed^c|d3-d2:|
|:d|fef dgb|aga d2f|gfe dcB|B3-A2 d|
gfg d2c|BAB G2D|EcB AGF|G3-G2:|]
POLONESE, THE. English, Country Dance Tune or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was fist published in Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson's 24 Country Dances for the Year 1787 (p. 21), reprinted in their 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 issued the next year. A Polonese or Polonaise [1] was the name for a dance in 3/4 time that originated in Poland ('Polonaise' means Polish), however, 'Polonese/Polonaise also refers to a woman's garment of the later 1770s and 1780s that consisted of a petticoat or underskirt, over which was worn a gown with a cutaway [2]. It too was said to have been inspired by Polish costume.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; p. 21. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 84, p. 38.
