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'''MONFRINA.''' English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A ''monfrina'' was a dance from the Montferrat, Piedmont, region of northern Italy. The form became popular in England around the year 1800, when the English armed forces became involved in the region during the wars with France. The spelling of the name varied: monfrina, monfreda, and monfredina, for example. | '''MONFRINA [1].''' English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A ''monfrina'' was a dance from the Montferrat, Piedmont, region of northern Italy. The form became popular in England around the year 1800, when the English armed forces became involved in the region during the wars with France. The spelling of the name varied: monfrina, monfreda, and monfredina, for example. | ||
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MONFRINA [1]. English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A monfrina was a dance from the Montferrat, Piedmont, region of northern Italy. The form became popular in England around the year 1800, when the English armed forces became involved in the region during the wars with France. The spelling of the name varied: monfrina, monfreda, and monfredina, for example.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Goulding (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808), 1808; No. 19.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
See an Italian Monfrina danced on youtube.com [1]. The band plays the same tune as printed by Goulding.