Annotation:Take a Dance
X: 1 T:Take a Dance. JJo8.175 B:J.Johnson Choice Collection Vol 8 1758 Z:vmp.Simon Wilson 2013 www.village-music-project.org.uk M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=120 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/JohnJohnson/8175_Take_a_Dance.abc K:D |:B2cd2e|fedTc3|B2cd2e|f2g fdB| B2cd2e|fedTc3|A2Bc2d|e2a (ec)A:| |:(a2f)(g2e)|(f2d)Tc3|B2cd2e|f2g fdB| aaf gge|ffdTc3|A2Bc2d|e2a (ec)A:|
TAKE A DANCE. English, Jig (6/8 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune dates to 1750 when it was first printed in London publisher David Rutherford’s Choice Collection of Sixty of the Most Celebrated Country Dances. Subsequently it appeared in John Johnson’s Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (London, 1758) and Rutherford’s Complete Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1760), as well as Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1765 collection.
