Annotation:Trip to Bath (1)
X: 1 T:Trip to Bath [1]. WCD3/6.150, A A: England; London O: M:6/4 L:1/4 Z:vmp.Peter Dunk.2011.from a transcription by Paul Dennant B:John Walsh Jr. The Compleat Country Dancing Master.Vol 6 1756 Q:3/4=100 K:G G/A/|B3/ c/ d gdc|B2 G G2 B|cde Aag|f2 d d2 f| gdB ecA|afd bag|fga dgf|g2 G G2:| |:B|ceg gec|Bdg gdB|cBc Aag|f2 d d2 c| Bdg cea|dfb bag|dcB Aae|g2 G G2:|
TRIP TO BATH [1]. English, Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The jig "A Trip to Bath" appears in the 1770 music manuscript copybook of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, about whom unfortunately very little is known. It earlier appeared in Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances (p. 29) and Walsh’s Compleat Country Dancing Master vol. 6 (1755, p. 150). A Trip to Bath (1765) is also the name of an unfinished play by Irish-born novelist and playwright wikipedia:Frances Sheridan (1724-1766).
