Annotation:Scheming Jockey (The)
X:1 T:Scheming Jockey, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson -- Complete Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1788, p. 12) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G GBd dBd|dBd dBd|efg dcB|ecA A3| GBd dBd|dBd dBd|gab dgd|BGG G2:| |:gbg dBd|gbg dBd|gab dcB|ecA A3| gbg dBd|gbg dBd|gfe dBg|dBG G3:|]
SCHEMING JOCKEY, THE. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller was a ballet staged in June, 1787, at the Haymarket Theatre as the end to an evening's entertainment that included a mainpiece, Two To One, and an afterpiece, A Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon. The dance was also stage as an entre-act performance after Act I and Act II of other stage plays in 1786. The tune was entered (as "Skeming Jockey") in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.
