Annotation:Union Jig (1)
X:1 T:Union Jigg T:Union Jig [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B: Young – Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition (1710, No. 177) K:Gmin g/^f/|g2d d=e^f|g2G GAB|c2B A>BA/G/|^F3 D2 g/^f/| g2d d=e^f|g2G GAB|Adc B>AG|G3-G2:| |:b/a/|b2f f>ga|b2B B>cd|e2d c>dc/B/|A3 F2f| fed efg|fba gfe|dcB B2A|B3-B2 d| dBB dBB|f3 d2d|g>ab abg|^f3 d2 g/a/| bdb ada|gdg ^f2g|dcB A2G|G3-G2:||
UNION JIGG [1]. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions were printed by London publisher John Young in all four editions of his Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728). It also appeared in Walsh & Randall's The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book (1710) and Walsh and Hare's The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719). The title may refer to the Acts of Union [1] of 1706 and 1707 by the English and Scottish Parliaments that united England and Scotland into Great Britain (see also Young's "Scotch Union").
