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'''WHEN DAYLIGHT SHINES.''' AKA and see "[[Three Meet (1)]].” English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The alternate title "Three Meet" is the name of a dance to the tune "When Daylight Shines." | '''WHEN DAYLIGHT SHINES.''' AKA and see "[[Three Meet (1)]].” English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The alternate title "Three Meet" is the name of a dance to the tune "When Daylight Shines." A tune called "The Swedish Dance," a truncated version of "When Daylight Shines," was collected by English dance and music collector Cecil Sharp in 1909 from Thomas Swallow of Lower Guiting, Gloucestershire. The dance as well is a version of "Three Meet"; it was common in the area to refer to dances as 'Swedish' if the dancers were in groups of three, alternating men and women. | ||
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WHEN DAYLIGHT SHINES. AKA and see "Three Meet (1).” English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The alternate title "Three Meet" is the name of a dance to the tune "When Daylight Shines." A tune called "The Swedish Dance," a truncated version of "When Daylight Shines," was collected by English dance and music collector Cecil Sharp in 1909 from Thomas Swallow of Lower Guiting, Gloucestershire. The dance as well is a version of "Three Meet"; it was common in the area to refer to dances as 'Swedish' if the dancers were in groups of three, alternating men and women.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1), 1951; No. 85, p. 42. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 105.
Recorded sources: