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'''DROPS OF DRINK'''. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Country dance figures are given in Saltator's '''Treatise on Dancing''' (Boston, Mass., 1802 and 1807). The melody was printed in Gilfert's '''Gentleman's Pocket Companion for the German Flute or Viola''' (New York, 1802). However, the melody is older, having first appeared in Aird's '''Selections''', vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1785). "Drops of Drink" was included in a few music manuscript collections, including, in North America, those of Elisha Belknap (Framingham, Mass., 1784) and flute player Thomas Molyneaux's copybook (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788). In England, it appears in the music manuscript collection of musician John Rook (Wigton, Cumbria, 1840). | '''DROPS OF DRINK'''. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Country dance figures are given in Saltator's '''Treatise on Dancing''' (Boston, Mass., 1802 and 1807). The melody was printed in Gilfert's '''Gentleman's Pocket Companion for the German Flute or Viola''' (New York, 1802). However, the melody is older, having first appeared in Aird's '''Selections''', vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1785). "Drops of Drink" was included in a few music manuscript collections, including, in North America, those of Elisha Belknap (Framingham, Mass., 1784) and flute player Thomas Molyneaux's copybook (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788). In England, it appears in the music manuscript collection of musician John Rook (Wigton, Cumbria, 1840). | ||
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''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs'''), vol. II, 1785; No. 27, p. 10. Barnes ('''English Country Dance Tunes''', vol. 2), 2005; p. 28 (appears as "Dauntless Dorothy," the name of a dance by Fried de Metz Herman set to the tune). Kennedy ('''Fiddlers Tune Book'''), vol. 2, 1954; p. 43. Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 106. | ''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs'''), vol. II, 1785; No. 27, p. 10. Barnes ('''English Country Dance Tunes''', vol. 2), 2005; p. 28 (appears as "Dauntless Dorothy," the name of a dance by Fried de Metz Herman set to the tune). Kennedy ('''Fiddlers Tune Book'''), vol. 2, 1954; p. 43. Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 106. | ||
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DROPS OF DRINK. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Country dance figures are given in Saltator's Treatise on Dancing (Boston, Mass., 1802 and 1807). The melody was printed in Gilfert's Gentleman's Pocket Companion for the German Flute or Viola (New York, 1802). However, the melody is older, having first appeared in Aird's Selections, vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1785). "Drops of Drink" was included in a few music manuscript collections, including, in North America, those of Elisha Belknap (Framingham, Mass., 1784) and flute player Thomas Molyneaux's copybook (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788). In England, it appears in the music manuscript collection of musician John Rook (Wigton, Cumbria, 1840).
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Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 27, p. 10. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 28 (appears as "Dauntless Dorothy," the name of a dance by Fried de Metz Herman set to the tune). Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), vol. 2, 1954; p. 43. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 106.
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