Annotation:Lady Cholmondley's Waltz
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LADY CHOLMONDLEY'S WALTZ. English, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The Cholmondeley family have lived at Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, since the 12th century.
Lincolnshire fiddler Joshua Gibbons set the tune in they key of 'G' major in his original early 18th century mss. In America, the melody appears in the music manuscript collections of New York keyboard player Ann Winnington (c. 1810). Published American versions include Robinson's Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick (3rd ed., 1826), Paff's Gentleman's Amusement, No. 1 (New York, 1812), Ball's Gentleman's Amusement Book 3, (New York & London, c. 1830), Williams' New and Complete Preceptor for the Fife (Utica, N.Y., 1819), and Whiteley's Instrumental Preceptor (Utica, N.Y., c. 1816).
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 33 (set for three instruments).
Recorded sources: North Star Records NS0038, "The Village Green: Dance Music of Old Sturbridge Village."
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