X:1
T:Surrender of Copenhagen
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
B:Goulding & Co. – Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808 (London)
N:”With proper Tune & Directions to each Dance (as they may be
N:performed at Court, Bath, and all Public Assemblys.”
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock
Z:abcs’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
G2G GFG|D2G GFG|D2G GFG|ABA d2d|
B2G GFG|D2G GFG|D2G EcB|AGF G3:|
|:d|B2e e^de|A2d d^cd|G2c cBc|c2c BAB|
A2G GFG|D2G GFG|D2G GFG|AGF G2:||
SURRENDER OF COPENHAGEN. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In 1807 the Danish fleet and the city of Copenhagen were taken by the British under Lord Cathcart in a pre-emptive move to prevent the ships being used by Napoleon. Cathcart also gets a nod in Goudling’s volume with the tune “Lord Cathcart’s Reel.” "The Most Terrible Night", by Christian A. Lorentzen
Additional notes
Source for notated version: -
Printed sources : - Goulding (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808), 1808; No. 24.
