Annotation:Cheshire Rounds (1): Difference between revisions
(Created page with '[[{{BASEPAGENAME}}|Tune properties and standard notation]] ---- <p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> CHESHIRE ROUNDS [1]. English, "Old" Hornpipe (3/4 time). D Major. Standa…') |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
''the Cheshire Rounds to the admiration of all spectators." '' | ''the Cheshire Rounds to the admiration of all spectators." '' | ||
''(Play-bill by Dogget, 1691. In fact, the only known portrait'' | ''(Play-bill by Dogget, 1691. In fact, the only known portrait'' | ||
''of Dogget shows him dancing the Cheshire Round.)'' | ''of Dogget shows him dancing the Cheshire Round.)''<br> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
''John Sleepe now keeps the Whelp and Bacon in Smithfield '' | ''John Sleepe now keeps the Whelp and Bacon in Smithfield '' | ||
''Rounds, where are to be seen a young lad that dances a '' | ''Rounds, where are to be seen a young lad that dances a '' | ||
''Cheshire Round to the admiration of all people." (Playbill) | ''Cheshire Round to the admiration of all people." (Playbill)<br> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
''It is one of the tunes called for by "the hobnailed fellows" | ''It is one of the tunes called for by "the hobnailed fellows" | ||
''in A Second Tale of a Tub (8vo, 1715). | ''in A Second Tale of a Tub (8vo, 1715).<br> | ||
<br> | </blockquote> | ||
< | |||
An early version appears in the music manuscript book of Henry Atkinson (Morpeth, Northumberland, 1694). See also the melody "Our Cat Has Kitted" from the Joseph Kershaw manuscript for a 19th century version from North West England. | An early version appears in the music manuscript book of Henry Atkinson (Morpeth, Northumberland, 1694). See also the melody "Our Cat Has Kitted" from the Joseph Kershaw manuscript for a 19th century version from North West England. | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
Revision as of 04:02, 6 November 2010
Tune properties and standard notation
CHESHIRE ROUNDS [1]. English, "Old" Hornpipe (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning. AB (Thompson): AABB (Chappell, Raven): AABBCCDD (Callaghan, Plain Brown). The name Cheshire is an ancient contraction of Chestershire. This melody appears in Henry Playford's Dancing Master (11th edition of 1701 and subsequent editions through the 18th, in 1728), Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master (editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754), Johnson's Wrights Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1742), and Gay's Polly (1729) and other ballad operas. It was included in the music manuscript copybooks of London musician Thomas Hammersley (1790) and American musician Ebenezer Parkman (Cambridge, Mass., 1721). There are many variations of this popular and widespread melody. The Cheshire Rounds was also a once-popular dance, and Chappell (1859) found several references to its performance:
In Bartholomew Fiar, at the Coach-house on the pav'd stones at Hosier-Lane end, you will see a Black that dances the Cheshire Rounds to the admiration of all spectators." (Play-bill by Dogget, 1691. In fact, the only known portrait of Dogget shows him dancing the Cheshire Round.)
John Sleepe now keeps the Whelp and Bacon in Smithfield Rounds, where are to be seen a young lad that dances a Cheshire Round to the admiration of all people." (Playbill)
It is one of the tunes called for by "the hobnailed fellows" in A Second Tale of a Tub (8vo, 1715).
An early version appears in the music manuscript book of Henry Atkinson (Morpeth, Northumberland, 1694). See also the melody "Our Cat Has Kitted" from the Joseph Kershaw manuscript for a 19th century version from North West England.
Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 76. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 167. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 5 (Chappell's setting, preceded by two other parts). Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 15. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 188.
Recorded sources: BGOCD 354, Albion Country Band - "Battle of the Field (1997 reissue of 1976 Island recording). Island Records HELP25, Albion Country Band - "Battle of the Field" (1976).
X:1
T:Cheshire Rounds [1]
M:3/4
L:1/8
S:Chappell - Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
fe/f/ g/f/e/d/ f/g/a|b e2 d cA|fe/f/ g/f/e/d/ f/g/a|A d2 A FD:|
|:BA/B/ =c/B/A/G/ F2|E e2 d ^cB/A/|BA/B/ =c/B/A/G/ F>E|D d2 A FD:||