Annotation:Waterloo Dance (1)

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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 English musicians’ manuscript copybooks, 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).


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - the 1823-26 music ms. of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner]; the early 19th century Thomas Hardy manuscripts (Dorset) [Trim].

Printed sources : - Barber (Nick Barber's English Choice), 2002; No. 58,m p. 28. Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 69. Elias Howe (Second Part of the Musician’s Companion), 1843; p. 47. Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 630. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; No. 182, p. 95. Trim (The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 49.

Recorded sources : - DMPCD 0204, Nick & Mary Barber with Huw Jones - "Lovely Nancy" (2002).



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