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'''CARELESS SALLY'''. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared in print in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's '''Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances''' vol. 5 (London, 1788). It appears in the music manuscript collections of several amateur musicians on both sides of the Atlantic: Lawrence Leadley (Helperby, Yorkshire, mid-19th cent.), Edward Murphy (Newport, R.I., 1790), John Treat (Durham?, late 18th cent.) and Luther Kingsley (Mansfield, Conn., 1795). Dance figures for "Careless Sally" also appear in period manuscript collections in New England and New York, and in the publications '''A Select Collection of the Newest and Most Favorite Country Dances''' (Phinney, Ostego, N.Y., 1808) and '''A Treatise on Dancing''' (Saltator, Boston, Mass., 1807). | '''CARELESS SALLY'''. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared in print in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's '''Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances''' vol. 5 (London, 1788). It appears in the music manuscript collections of several amateur musicians on both sides of the Atlantic: Lawrence Leadley (Helperby, Yorkshire, mid-19th cent.), Edward Murphy (Newport, R.I., 1790), John Treat (Durham?, late 18th cent.) and Luther Kingsley (Mansfield, Conn., 1795). Dance figures for "Careless Sally" also appear in period manuscript collections in New England and New York, and in the publications '''A Select Collection of the Newest and Most Favorite Country Dances''' (Phinney, Ostego, N.Y., 1808) and '''A Treatise on Dancing''' (Saltator, Boston, Mass., 1807). | ||
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Cecil Sharp noted a version of the tune as "Hornpipe" from the playing of James Higgins, then resident at Shepton Mallet Workhouse--the tune is often called "[[Shepton Mallet Hornpipe]]" today (c.f. playing of Somerset harmonica player Jim Small). A version also appears in the music manuscript of James Rook, Cumbria, 1840. | |||
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Revision as of 00:51, 4 October 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
CARELESS SALLY. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared in print in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 5 (London, 1788). It appears in the music manuscript collections of several amateur musicians on both sides of the Atlantic: Lawrence Leadley (Helperby, Yorkshire, mid-19th cent.), Edward Murphy (Newport, R.I., 1790), John Treat (Durham?, late 18th cent.) and Luther Kingsley (Mansfield, Conn., 1795). Dance figures for "Careless Sally" also appear in period manuscript collections in New England and New York, and in the publications A Select Collection of the Newest and Most Favorite Country Dances (Phinney, Ostego, N.Y., 1808) and A Treatise on Dancing (Saltator, Boston, Mass., 1807).
Cecil Sharp noted a version of the tune as "Hornpipe" from the playing of James Higgins, then resident at Shepton Mallet Workhouse--the tune is often called "Shepton Mallet Hornpipe" today (c.f. playing of Somerset harmonica player Jim Small). A version also appears in the music manuscript of James Rook, Cumbria, 1840.
Source for notated version: the MS collection compiled by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].
Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 110, p. 61.
Recorded sources: