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|f_annotation='''FRENCH FANCY DANCE'''.  AKA and see "[[Charlie Stewart (1)]]," "[[Prince Charles (2)]]."  American, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who may have lived in Philadelphia (judging from some tune names in the collection). There several tunes that were entered into Eames' collection contiguously that appear in a similar order in Elias Howe's '''Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7''' (Boston, 1880-1882) (see also "[[Gentleman Blacksmith (The)]]," "[[Lazy Trolloupe (The)]]", "[[Billy's Fancy]]"), indicating that Eames and Howe had them from the same page in an earlier, as yet unknown, source.  A close version of the jig can be found as "[[Prince Charles (2)]]" in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (Boston, 1883).
|f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 642.
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|f_annotation=FRENCH FANCY DANCE.  American, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who may have lived in Philadelphia (judging from some tune names in the collection). There were a half dozen or more that were entered into Eames' collection contiguously that appear in the same order in Elias Howe's '''Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7''' (Boston, 1880-1882) (see also "[[French Fancy Dance]]," "[[Staten's Fancy]]," "[[Liberty's Welcome]]," "[[Sour Kraut]]," "[[Lazy Trolloupe (The)]]", "[[Billy's Fancy]]"), indicating that Eames and Howe had them from the same page in an earlier, as yet unknown, source.
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|f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 642.
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FRENCH FANCY DANCE. AKA and see "Charlie Stewart (1)," "Prince Charles (2)." American, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who may have lived in Philadelphia (judging from some tune names in the collection). There several tunes that were entered into Eames' collection contiguously that appear in a similar order in Elias Howe's Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (Boston, 1880-1882) (see also "Gentleman Blacksmith (The)," "Lazy Trolloupe (The)", "Billy's Fancy"), indicating that Eames and Howe had them from the same page in an earlier, as yet unknown, source. A close version of the jig can be found as "Prince Charles (2)" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (Boston, 1883).


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Printed sources : - Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 642.






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