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|f_annotation='''HARLEQUIN GAMBOLS'''. AKA - "[[Harlequin's Gambols]]," "[[Harlequin Hornpipe (4)]]," "[[Merry Man Hornpipe (The)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. | |f_annotation='''HARLEQUIN GAMBOLS'''. AKA - "[[Harlequin's Gambols]]," "[[Harlequin Hornpipe (4)]]," "[[Merry Man Hornpipe (The)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is probably associated with the entertainment called '''The Sylphs; or Harlequin's Gambols''' (1774), performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden, London, although there were several such pantomimes or incidental works written that had the title "Harlequin Gambols" attached, such as '''Harlequin Gambols; or The Skeleton and the Clown''' (1803) and "Harlequin's Gambols; or, Witches of the Well" (1804). The music for the most famous of them, the "Sylphs" production, is the work of John Abraham Fisher, a dancer, musical director and ballet master at Covent Garden in the 1770's, and probably the composer of "[[Fisher's Hornpipe]]." The 'Harlequin' melody was developed into a hornpipe in Scotland under the title "[[Colosseum (The)]]" and in Ireland as "[[Merry Man Hornpipe (The)]]" and "[[Stage Hornpipe (3) (A)]]", and printed in Kerr's and Honeyman's volumes (as well as by Boston publisher Elias Howe). Dance figures for "Harlequin's Gambols" can be found in several American country dance publications and dance ms. copybooks from the first years of the 19th century<ref>See EASMES site [https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/DFIA/Title/Indexth.htm]</ref>. | ||
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HARLEQUIN GAMBOLS. AKA - "Harlequin's Gambols," "Harlequin Hornpipe (4)," "Merry Man Hornpipe (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is probably associated with the entertainment called The Sylphs; or Harlequin's Gambols (1774), performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden, London, although there were several such pantomimes or incidental works written that had the title "Harlequin Gambols" attached, such as Harlequin Gambols; or The Skeleton and the Clown (1803) and "Harlequin's Gambols; or, Witches of the Well" (1804). The music for the most famous of them, the "Sylphs" production, is the work of John Abraham Fisher, a dancer, musical director and ballet master at Covent Garden in the 1770's, and probably the composer of "Fisher's Hornpipe." The 'Harlequin' melody was developed into a hornpipe in Scotland under the title "Colosseum (The)" and in Ireland as "Merry Man Hornpipe (The)" and "Stage Hornpipe (3) (A)", and printed in Kerr's and Honeyman's volumes (as well as by Boston publisher Elias Howe). Dance figures for "Harlequin's Gambols" can be found in several American country dance publications and dance ms. copybooks from the first years of the 19th century[1].
See also the similar first strain of the air "In Infancy."
