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'''SIR CHARLES SEDLEY'S MINUET.''' Scottish, English; Minuet (3/4 time). England, North West. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the [James] ''''Gillespie Manuscript of Perth''', 1768, and also appears in a minuet collection by David Rutherford in the 1750’s (a copy of which is in the music collection at Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello). In America the melody was entered into the music manuscript copybooks of Captain George Bush, and of Henry Livingston, Jr. Livingston purchased the estate of Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1771 at the age of 23. In 1775 he as a Major in the 3rd New York Regiment, which participated in Montgomery’s invasion of Canada in a failed attempt to wrest Montreal from British control. An important land-owner in the Hudson Valley, and a member of the powerful Livingston family, Henry was also a surveyor and real estate speculator, an illustrator and map-maker, and a Justice of the Peace for Dutchess County. He was also a poet and musician, and presumably a dancer, as he was elected a Manager for the New York Assembly’s dancing season of 1774-1775, along with his 3rd cousin, John Jay, later U.S. Chief Justice of Governor of New York. | '''SIR CHARLES SEDLEY'S MINUET.''' Scottish, English; Minuet (3/4 time). England, North West. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the [James] ''''Gillespie Manuscript of Perth''', 1768, and also appears in a minuet collection by David Rutherford in the 1750’s (a copy of which is in the music collection at Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello). In America the melody was entered into the music manuscript copybooks of Captain George Bush, and of Henry Livingston, Jr. Livingston purchased the estate of Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1771 at the age of 23. In 1775 he as a Major in the 3rd New York Regiment, which participated in Montgomery’s invasion of Canada in a failed attempt to wrest Montreal from British control. An important land-owner in the Hudson Valley, and a member of the powerful Livingston family, Henry was also a surveyor and real estate speculator, an illustrator and map-maker, and a Justice of the Peace for Dutchess County. He was also a poet and musician, and presumably a dancer, as he was elected a Manager for the New York Assembly’s dancing season of 1774-1775, along with his 3rd cousin, John Jay, later U.S. Chief Justice of Governor of New York. | ||
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - | <font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - the MS collection of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), an officer and fiddler in the Continental Army [Keller]. | ||
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SIR CHARLES SEDLEY'S MINUET. Scottish, English; Minuet (3/4 time). England, North West. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the [James] 'Gillespie Manuscript of Perth, 1768, and also appears in a minuet collection by David Rutherford in the 1750’s (a copy of which is in the music collection at Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello). In America the melody was entered into the music manuscript copybooks of Captain George Bush, and of Henry Livingston, Jr. Livingston purchased the estate of Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1771 at the age of 23. In 1775 he as a Major in the 3rd New York Regiment, which participated in Montgomery’s invasion of Canada in a failed attempt to wrest Montreal from British control. An important land-owner in the Hudson Valley, and a member of the powerful Livingston family, Henry was also a surveyor and real estate speculator, an illustrator and map-maker, and a Justice of the Peace for Dutchess County. He was also a poet and musician, and presumably a dancer, as he was elected a Manager for the New York Assembly’s dancing season of 1774-1775, along with his 3rd cousin, John Jay, later U.S. Chief Justice of Governor of New York.