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'''UNION JIGG.''' English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions were printed by London publisher John Young in all four editions of his '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1710-1728). It also appeared in Walsh & Randall's '''The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book''' (1710) and Walsh and Hare's '''The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1719). The title may refer to the Acts of Union [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707] of 1706 and 1707 by the English and Scottish Parliaments that united England and Scotland into Great Britain. | '''UNION JIGG.''' English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions were printed by London publisher John Young in all four editions of his '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1710-1728). It also appeared in Walsh & Randall's '''The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book''' (1710) and Walsh and Hare's '''The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1719). The title may refer to the Acts of Union [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707] of 1706 and 1707 by the English and Scottish Parliaments that united England and Scotland into Great Britain (see also Young's "[[Scotch Union]]"). | ||
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UNION JIGG. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions were printed by London publisher John Young in all four editions of his Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728). It also appeared in Walsh & Randall's The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book (1710) and Walsh and Hare's The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719). The title may refer to the Acts of Union [1] of 1706 and 1707 by the English and Scottish Parliaments that united England and Scotland into Great Britain (see also Young's "Scotch Union").
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.
Recorded sources: