Annotation:Trip to Hackney
X:1 T:Trip to Hackney M:C| L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F fg|a2 gf g2 fe|f2c2c2 fg|a2 gf g2 fe|f4 F2:| |:AB|c2 BA G2 AB|cBAB c2f2|c2 BA BdcB|A4 F2:||
TRIP TO HACKNEY. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was penned into the music manuscript commonplace book of Cheapside, London, musician Walter Rainstorp, begun in 1747. Hackney, now part of Greater London, had many fashionable houses in the 18th century, although a trip to Hackney was not without peril, for the area was also plagued by highwaymen who found refuge in the low public houses around the Hackney Marshes.
