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SEYMOUR’S FANCY. AKA and see “Comely Jane Downing.” AKA – “Seymour’s Reel.” English, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was first printed in Preston’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793 (London) as “Seymour’s Reel.” Francis O'Neill printed a very close version in his Music of Ireland (1903) under the title "Comely Jane Downing," a title that honors the daughter of his next door neighbor and flute teacher in his boyhood hone of Trailibane, County Cork. He later must have come across the correct title, for he included it as "Seymour's Fancy" in his later volume Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922). This suggests he learned the tune, sans title, in Ireland, perhaps via farmer Downing.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - copied from Wilson’s Companion to the Ballroom (1816) [O’Neill].

Printed sources : - O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 255. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1816; p. 85

Recorded sources: -

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+'''SEYMOUR’S FANCY.''' AKA and see “[[Comely Jane Downing]].” AKA – “Seymour’s Reel.” English, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was first printed in '''Preston’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793''' (London) as “Seymour’s Reel.”  Francis O'Neill printed a very close version in his '''Music of Ireland''' (1903) under the title "[[Comely Jane Downing]]," a title that honors the daughter of his next door neighbor and flute teacher in his boyhood hone of Trailibane, County Cork. He later must have come across the correct title, for he included it as "Seymour's Fancy" in his later volume '''Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody''' (1922).  This suggests he learned the tune, sans title, in Ireland, perhaps via farmer Downing.
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