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VIOLETTE, LA. (The Violet). English, Polka-Mazurka (3/4 time). G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB'. The title, 'The Violet', has been applied to several tunes on the Continent, although only a few in the polka-mazurka form. Sheet music for a polka-mazurka called "La Violette" by J.E. Ebrenz can be found at the American Memory website [1], although it is not musically related to the melody in the Hardy family manuscripts. The Hardy family tune is, however, a version of "La Violette", a mazurka by Carl Faust (1825-1892) [2],

La Violette was a dancer named Eva Maria Veigel who become something of a celebrity of the London Stage in the mid-18th century; she was married to the great actor-manager David Garrick. It would seem the she predates the introduction of the polka-mazurka form (mid-1840's), but there possibly is an association.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Trim (The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 82.

Recorded sources:

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-'''VIOLETTE, LA.''' (The Violet). English, Polka-Mazurka (3/4 time). G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB'. The title, 'The Violet', has been applied to several tunes on the Continent, although not in the polka-mazurka (a hybrid dance form) form. La Violette was a dancer named Eva Maria Veigel who become something of a celebrity of the London Stage in the mid-18th century; she was married to the great actor-manager David Garrick. It would seem the she predates the introduction of the polka-mazurka form, but there may be an association.
+'''VIOLETTE, LA.''' (The Violet). English, Polka-Mazurka (3/4 time). G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB'. The title, 'The Violet', has been applied to several tunes on the Continent, although only a few in the polka-mazurka form. Sheet music for a polka-mazurka called "La Violette" by J.E. Ebrenz can be found at the American Memory website [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=sm1870&fileName=sm/sm1881/19900/19976/mussm19976.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?mussm:3:./temp/~ammem_QjgL::&linkText=0], although it is not musically related to the melody in the Hardy family manuscripts. The Hardy family tune is, however, a version of "La Violette", a mazurka by Carl Faust (1825-1892) [http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/sheetmusic/n/n13/n1385/n1385-1-72dpi.html],
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+La Violette was a dancer named Eva Maria Veigel who become something of a celebrity of the London Stage in the mid-18th century; she was married to the great actor-manager David Garrick. It would seem the she predates the introduction of the polka-mazurka form (mid-1840's), but there possibly is an association.
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