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'''HEREFORDSHIRE LASSES'''. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. Herefordshire is a southern county in England near the border with Wales. Hereford is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "army ford" and referring to a crossing place on the Severn river that was apparently quite important during times of conflict (Matthews, 1972). The air is from Longman, Lukey & Broderip's 1776 publication '''Bride's Favorite Collection of Two Hundred Select Country Dances, Cotillons''' (London, p. 58). The Herefordshire Lasses is also the name of a country dance. | |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Herefordshire_Lasses_(The) > | ||
|f_annotation='''HEREFORDSHIRE LASSES'''. AKA and see "[[Earl of Lauderdale (The)]]," "[[Gold Ring (5) (The)]]," "[[Nouvelle Angloise (La)]]," "[[Temple Newsham]]." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. Herefordshire is a southern county in England near the border with Wales. Hereford is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "army ford" and referring to a crossing place on the Severn river that was apparently quite important during times of conflict (Matthews, 1972). The air is from Longman, Lukey & Co. '''Twenty-four Country Dances for 1772''', and Longman, Lukey & Broderip's 1776 publication '''Bride's Favorite Collection of Two Hundred Select Country Dances, Cotillons''' (London, p. 58). The Herefordshire Lasses is also the name of a country dance. The exact same tune appears five years later in Glasgow publisher James Aird's '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1''' (1782) as "[[Nouvelle Angloise (La)]]." | |||
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< | Frank Kidson maintains the tune is a variant of the "[[To Rodney We will go]]" song and tune family<ref>Frank Kidson, Letter to the Editor, '''Musical Times''', Dec. 1, 1910, p. 786. </ref>. | ||
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'' | |f_printed_sources=Kidson ('''Old English Country Dances'''), 1890; p. 9. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=Fledgling Records, John Kirkpatrick - "The Duck Race: Morris Dance Tunes from Shropshire" (2004). | |||
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HEREFORDSHIRE LASSES. AKA and see "Earl of Lauderdale (The)," "Gold Ring (5) (The)," "Nouvelle Angloise (La)," "Temple Newsham." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. Herefordshire is a southern county in England near the border with Wales. Hereford is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "army ford" and referring to a crossing place on the Severn river that was apparently quite important during times of conflict (Matthews, 1972). The air is from Longman, Lukey & Co. Twenty-four Country Dances for 1772, and Longman, Lukey & Broderip's 1776 publication Bride's Favorite Collection of Two Hundred Select Country Dances, Cotillons (London, p. 58). The Herefordshire Lasses is also the name of a country dance. The exact same tune appears five years later in Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782) as "Nouvelle Angloise (La)."
Frank Kidson maintains the tune is a variant of the "To Rodney We will go" song and tune family[1].
- ↑ Frank Kidson, Letter to the Editor, Musical Times, Dec. 1, 1910, p. 786.