Annotation:Soulton Jigg
X:1 T:Soulton Jigg M:6/8 L:1/8 S:John Young’s Dancing Master, 2nd volume (London, 1713) K:G g2g gdB|gdB A3|B>cd efg|aeg f>ed/c/|Bdg Bdg|Bdg f2e| a>ba/g/ fdg|g2f g3:||BAG BAG|Bdd d2^d|eBe egf/e/|^(d3 d2)f| gfe bBe/f/|gfe b^de|e>fg f2e|(e3 e2) e/f/|g>fe dcB|ABG FAD| G>AB B>AG|(d3 d2)|e>fg dcB|c>de e>fg/a/|fdg gaf|g6||
SOULTON JIGG. English, Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. “Soulton Jigg”, a longways dance for “as many as will,” appears in The Second Book of the Dancing Master, first edition (p. 2), published in London by John Young in 1713. The melody appears in all subsequent editions, through the 4th and final edition of 1728. It also appears in rival London publisher John Walsh’s Second Book of the Compleat Dancing Master, first published in 1719, with further editions in 1735 and 1749.
The title probably refers to Soulton Hall, a country house and farm in Shropshire built in 1556, which remodeled the surviving earlier hall that dated to Tudor or even Medieval times. The brick exterior of the manor was constructed in approximately 1668.
