Annotation:Resolution
X: 1 T: Resolution, or the Quaker's Grace T: Longways for as many as will N: "The first strain twice, and the last but once." N: Playford's instructions: N: The 1cu. cast off and half Figure with the 2. cu. then the man being in the wo. place, and the wo. N: in the mans, then they take hands, three on the one side, and three on the other, and lead back and N: turn single, then *** ** Hey on the mens side, and then on the wo. side. O: Playford 1706 R: reel Z: 2010 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> S: http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4363.htm M: C| L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/England/Playford/Resolution_QuakersGrace_D.abc K: D dc | d2A2 B2dc | d2D2 E2dc | d2A2 BcdE | GFED D2 :| FG | A2A2 A2Bc | d2d2 d2cd | B2B2 B2cd | efed c2 || de | d2A2 B2dc | d2D2 E2dc | d2A2 BcdE | GFED D2 || de | f2dc B2cd | e2cB ^A2fe | d2ef gfed | c4 B2 || cd | d2A2 B2dc | d2D2 E2dc | d2A2 BcdE | GFED D2 |]
RESOLUTION. AKA and see "Quaker's Grace (The), "Round O (3) (A)." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody and dance instructions were first published as "Resolution", the primary title, in London music publisher John Young's Dancing Master, 13th edition (1706). It was retained (along with its alternate title, "Quaker's Grace (The)") in the Dancing Master editions through the end of the series with the 18th edition of 1728. It was also published in John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718 and 1731. Northumbrian musician Henry Atkinson of Hartburn entered the tune in his music manuscript collection as "Round O (3) (A)."
