Annotation:Trip to Nettle Bed (A)
X:1 T:Trip to Nettle Bed, A M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757, p. 50) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Eb (EG)B (eB)G|(cA)F {E}D2C|(B,D)F (DF)A|(GB)D E2 (3B/c/d/| e/B/ TB2 f/B/ TB2|(ge)c {B}=A2G|F=Ac (Ac)e|1 df=A B2 (3_A/G/F/:||2 df=A B3|| |:f2g (fd)B|(ge)c (fd)B|{a}(gf)g agf|edc {c}=B3| (ge)c a3|(fd)B g3|(ag)f (ed)c|G2 (3F/E/D/ C2 (3B/c/d/| {d}e3 BGE|cAF {E}D3|f2g aga|cfe {e}d3| bgd eBc|afc d=AB|eBG cAF|BGD {D}E3:||
TRIP TO NETTLE BED, A. English, Jig (6/8 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. Country dance directions appear in Peter Thompson’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1755. The music (along with dance directions) first appears in John Hinton’s periodical Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London, 1756). Subsequently the music appeared in Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1757 country dance compendium of their annual collections, and in John Johnson’s 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (London, 1758). Nettlebed is a village in Oxforshire, once known for its clay deposits, useful for pottery and kilns.
