Annotation:Hobb's Wedding
X:1 T:Hobb's Wedding. A Kissing Dance in the Country Wake M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:Elias Howe – Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (Boston, 1880-1882, p. 614) B: http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c7/IMSLP601433-PMLP562790-ONeill_Rare_Medium_M40_M8_v6.7_text.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C G2|c2g e>dc|a>ge e>ag|^f>ed g>af|(g3 g2):| d|B2c BdG|g2e c2e|f>ga (ge)c|(d3 d2)g| a2g a2g|a2g a2g|e>dc dB2|(c3 c2)||
HOBB'S WEDDING: A KISSING DANCE IN THE COUNTRY WAKE. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/4 or 6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody with directions first appears in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, Part II, in the supplement to the 9th edition (1696, No. 16). It was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series through the 18th and final edition of 1728, published at the time by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. "Hobb's Wedding" was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718 and 1731.
Irish-born John Leigh's farce Hobb's Weddingwas the sequel to Dogget's The Country Wake and was staged in London at Lincoln-Inn-Fields Theatre in 1721. It was not a success.
