Annotation:Waterloo Dance (1)
X:1 T:Waterloo Dance [1] M:C| L:1/8 K:D AG|:F2 dB A2 fe|d2d2d2 cd|e2e2 dcBc|defd A2 AG| F2 dB A2 fe|d2d2d2 cd|e2e2 dcBc|1 d6 AG:|2 d4 d4|| |:e2 ec a2 af|e2 ec A2A2|^GABc dBfe|d4 c4| e2 ec a2 af|e2 ec A2A2|^GABc dBA^G|1 A8 :|2 A6 fg|| |: a2 aa a2 fa|b2a2g2f2|e2e2 edef|d2e2f2g2| a2 aa a2 fa|b2a2g2f2|e2e2 edef|1 d6 fg:|2 d6||
WATERLOO DANCE [1]. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Howe): AABBCC (Barber, Trim): AA'BB'CC' (Howe): AABC (Sumner). In addition to the Thomas Hardy family and Joshua Gibbons mss. (referenced below) the melody appears in a number of 19th century musicians' manuscript copybooks, in England including Thomas Shoosmith (Arlington, Sussex, early 19th c.), James Haslingden (Midlands, 1827), Thomas Lambert (Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, c. 1860), Robert Dale Owen (New Lanark, Scotland, 1826), Richard Pyle (Nether Wallop, Hamptonshire, 1822), William Carke (Feltwell, Norfolk, 1858) and George Spencer (Leeds, west Yorkshire, 1831). "Waterloo Dance [1]" can also be found in the huge 19th century music manuscript collection[1])(No. 49, p. 12) of prosperous dairy farmer, miller, sometime printer and bookbinder, and fiddler James Barry (1819-1906) of Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, northern Nova Scotia. Barry's setting is identical to that printed by Howe in his Second Part of the Musician's Companion (1843), a volume that Barry had access to.
