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'''PRETTY GIRL [2], THE.''' AKA and see "[[Harlequin Neptune]]." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). England, Shropshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune entered by Shropshire | '''PRETTY GIRL [2], THE.''' AKA and see "[[Harlequin Neptune]]," "[[Neptune (2)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). England, Shropshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune entered by Shropshire musician John Moore in his c. 1837-40 music manuscript collection as "The Pretty Girl," and by Shropshire poet and musician John Clare as "[[Neptune (2)]]" is note-for-note the same country dance melody printed by Charles and Samuel Thompson in London in 1778 as "[[Harlequin Neptune]]." The Thompsons' melody takes its title from a pantomime by Charles Dibdin, staged in 1775. | ||
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PRETTY GIRL [2], THE. AKA and see "Harlequin Neptune," "Neptune (2)." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). England, Shropshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune entered by Shropshire musician John Moore in his c. 1837-40 music manuscript collection as "The Pretty Girl," and by Shropshire poet and musician John Clare as "Neptune (2)" is note-for-note the same country dance melody printed by Charles and Samuel Thompson in London in 1778 as "Harlequin Neptune." The Thompsons' melody takes its title from a pantomime by Charles Dibdin, staged in 1775.
Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].
Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 19b, p. 4.
Recorded sources: