Annotation:Scoulding Pair (The)
X: 1 T: the Scoulding Pair T: Longways for as many ... %R: jig B: Daniel Wright "Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances" 1740 p.63 S: http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/dancebooks.cgi Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: Repeats modified to match the "Each strain twice" instruction. M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DanielWright/CCCCD.abc K: G % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - d |\ BAG G2A | BGF GAB | cde dgd | dgd dgd | efe dcB | A>Bc/d/ edc |BAG F2E | D3- D2 :| |: d |\ dDD Ddc | dcB dcB | cCC CcB | cBA cBA | BB,B, B,BB | AA,A, A,AA | GB,A, G,GF | G3 G,2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%center Each strain twice. %%begintext align %% The 1st Man sides to the 2d Wo. and turns %% her with his right hand, then your partner %% with your left hand; then your Partner does the same :| %% Then cross ouer and figure in, %% and right and left quite round, then single %% figure at top, and right and left quite %% round with the 3d Cu. %%endtext % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%sep 2 4 300
SCOULDING PAIR, THE. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Scoulding Pair" was first published in London music publisher John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3rd edition (c. 1735, p. 59), followed by a printing in Daniel Wright's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (c. 1740--dates vary--, p. 63, published in London by John Johnson). Walsh also printed the tune in subsequent publications, including The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (c. 1735) and The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3d edition (1749).
