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%%sep 1 1 500 %%sep 1 1 500 X: 242 T: 2. La Scimballe T: la Scinballe B: Robert Landrin "Potpourri fran\,cois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine ..." 1760 p.24 #2 dance 8 #2 S: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?musdibib:2:./temp/~ammem_EbRS: Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 K: G % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - D |\ G2F G2A | B2A B2c | d>ed c>BA | G2G G2 :: "4.F." d | [g3B3D3] z2d | [g3B3D3] z2d | [g2B2D2]d c2B | ADD D2D | G2F G2A | B2A B2c | d>ed c>BA | HG3 z2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -



SCIMBALLE, LA. AKA - "Scinballe, La." French, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This jig, a vehicle for a country dance, was first published in France by Robert Landrin in his Potpourri françois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine ... (1760, p. 24). It was reprinted as one of the 'foreign airs' in Edinburgh music publisher Neil Stewart's Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, Jiggs & Marches (1784).

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Printed sources : - Neil Stewart (Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, Jiggs & Marches), 1784; p. 13.

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