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'''PRINCE GEORGE'S RIGADOON.''' English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Johnson’s '''Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6''' (London, 1751). It was included in the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John Turner and William Pitt Turner of Norwich, Connecticut. The title refers to Prince George (1738-1820), who became King George III in 1760, the first Hanoverian monarch for whom English was his first language. A 'rigadoon' (''rigaudon'') was sprightly folk dance that originated in France and became popular with both the French and English courts. The name supposedly derives from a dancing master from Marseille named Rigaud, who is thought to have introduced the dance to Parisian society in 1630. | |f_annotation='''PRINCE GEORGE'S RIGADOON.''' English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Johnson’s '''Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6''' (London, 1751). It was included in the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John Turner and William Pitt Turner of Norwich, Connecticut. The title refers to Prince George (1738-1820), who became King George III in 1760, the first Hanoverian monarch for whom English was his first language. A 'rigadoon' (''rigaudon'') was sprightly folk dance that originated in France and became popular with both the French and English courts. The name supposedly derives from a dancing master from Marseille named Rigaud, who is thought to have introduced the dance to Parisian society in 1630. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1'''), 1757; No. 4. | |||
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PRINCE GEORGE'S RIGADOON. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Johnson’s Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (London, 1751). It was included in the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John Turner and William Pitt Turner of Norwich, Connecticut. The title refers to Prince George (1738-1820), who became King George III in 1760, the first Hanoverian monarch for whom English was his first language. A 'rigadoon' (rigaudon) was sprightly folk dance that originated in France and became popular with both the French and English courts. The name supposedly derives from a dancing master from Marseille named Rigaud, who is thought to have introduced the dance to Parisian society in 1630.
