Annotation:Mignonette (1) (La)

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MIGNONETTE [1], LA. AKA - "Mignonette Francoise (La)," French, English; Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. An imported French contradance melody, found in Alexander McGlashan's c. 1780 Collection of Scots Measures, Neil Stewart's Select Collection of Scots English Irish and Foreign Airs Jiggs & Marches (1788, as "La Mignonne"), and Thomas Wilson's A Companion to the Ball Room (1816, as "La Mignonnette (Old French)"). However, the first printing appears in Giovanni Andrea Gallini's New Collection of Forty-Four Cotillons (London, 1770). It was printed in Paris in M. Boûin's Contredanses; description des figures, plan des figures (1780) as "La Mignonnette. Contredanse Nouvelle Française."



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 18.

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