Annotation:Charming Fellow (The)
X:1 T:Charming Fellow, The M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788, p. 31) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D dd g/f/e/d/|c/d/e/f/ eA|dd g/f/e/f/|d2 aa| dd g/f/e/d/|c/d/e/f/ eA|B/c/d/B/ e/d/c/B/|A2 dd:| |:da f/a/f/d/|ce c/e/c/A/|daf/g/a/f/|d2aa| (d/f/)(a/f/) (b/a/)(g/f/)|(g/f/e/d/) (d/c/B/A/)|(B/c/d/e/B/) (e/d/c/B/) |A2 dd:|]
CHARMING FELOW, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). "Charming Fellow" was also entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England, and in the 1788 music copybook of Ensign Thomas Molyneaux (Shelburne, Nova Scotia), of the 6th Regiment. A version of the tune was the vehicle for a song in wikipedia:The_Agreeable _Surprise (London, 1781), a comic opera in two acts, with music composed by Samuel Arnold and the libretto by John O'Keeffe. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (London), in September, 1781. The same stage version was also published in Thomas Cahusac's Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (1788, p. 34).
