Annotation:Spanish Jig (1)
X: 1 T:Spanish Jig [1]. (p)1695.PLFD1.344 M:6/4 L:1/4 Q:3/4=100 B:Playford, Dancing Master,9th Ed,1695. O:England;London H:1695. Z:Chris Partington <www.cpartington.plus> K:C (e/f/)|g2gg>ag|f2ff>gf|e2ee>fe|d>cBc2:| |:(e/f/)|g2ec>de|d2BG>AB|c2AF>fe|d>cBc2:| |:e/f/|g2gg/f/g/a/g|a2aa/g/a/b/a|g2gg>fe|d>cBc2:| |:g|(ec)g(ec)g|(dB)g(dB)g|(cA)d(BG)c|c>dBc2:|
SPANISH JIGG [1]. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody with directions for a country dance was first printed in Henry Playford's Dancing Master 9th edition (1695, p. 171). The piece was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series of editions through the 18th and last edition of 1728, printed at the time by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. It also appears in rival London music publisher John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754. Graham Christian[1] posits that the title is closely connected with wikipedia:Thomas_D'Urfey's Comical History of Don Quixote (1694), one of the first dramatizations of wikipedia:Miguel_de_Cervantes' celebrated novel and hugely popular. The music does not appear in any songbooks associated with the production, but Christian believes it may have been performed entr'acte or at the show's conclusion, when much incidental music was performed.
- ↑ "Tell Me More," CDSS News #193, Nov./Dec. 2006.