Annotation:Garrick's Delight: Difference between revisions

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GARRICK'S DELIGHT. English, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title references English thespian and theater manager David Garrick [1]. The melody first appeared in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6th (London, 1751, p. 25) and in John Hinton's periodical Universal Magazine (London, 1751). A few years later it was published in The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, volume the Fifth by the Walsh firm (London, 1754, p. 2). In each case the tune was set in the key of 'A'.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 23, p. 25.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''GARRICK'S DELIGHT'''. English, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title references English thespian and theater manager David Garrick. The melody first appeared in John Johnson's '''Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6th''' (London, 1751, p. 25) and in John Hinton's periodical '''Universal Magazine''' (London, 1751). A few years later it was published in '''The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, volume the Fifth''' by the Walsh firm (London, 1754, p. 2). In each case the tune was set in the key of 'A'.
+'''GARRICK'S DELIGHT'''. English, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title references English thespian and theater manager David Garrick [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrick]. The melody first appeared in John Johnson's '''Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6th''' (London, 1751, p. 25) and in John Hinton's periodical '''Universal Magazine''' (London, 1751). A few years later it was published in '''The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, volume the Fifth''' by the Walsh firm (London, 1754, p. 2). In each case the tune was set in the key of 'A'.
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