Annotation:Voulez Vous Danser
X:1 T:Voulez Vous Danser M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig Q:"Moderato" B:Thomas Wilson - A Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816, p. 91) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C e2e e2e|dcd c3|B2c d2B|c2d e3| e2e e2e|dcd cde|f2e d2c|cdB c3|| ded B2G|cde d3|ded B2G|cde d3| g2g ^f2f|ede d2d|c2c B2B|AGA G3|| g2g g2g|fef e3|d2e f2d|e2f g3| g2g g2g|fef efg|a2g f2e|dcB c3||
VOULEZ VOUS DANSER{, MADEMOISELLE?} (Do You Want to Dance?) AKA and see "Soldier's Glory (The)," "Life of a Soldier (The)," "Nine Pins (2)/Ninepins (2)," "Old Amzi Eccles Tune." English, Jig (6/8 time). A Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & E Major ('B' part) {Raven}: C Major (Wilson): D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part) {Trim}. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD (Kerr): AABBCC (Trim). Probably an old ballroom dance, though later the tune had currency as a march. Researcher Paul Cooper finds it was tremendously poplSet in duple time it was transformed into the Québec reel “Bastringue (La).” It appears in several older fiddlers’ manuscripts in England, including the James Hook/Thomas Hardy manuscript from Dorset (as “Vowlaz vowz dancer madamazelle”). In southern England a variant of the tune appears as “Nine Pins (2)” or perhaps more recognizably the song “Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow.”
