Annotation:Nancy's Fancy

Back to Nancy's Fancy

---

NANCY'S FANCY. English, Reel (2/4 time) or Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). G Major (Kennedy & Raven): C Major (Karpeles, Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Karpeles, Sharp): AABC (Kennedy & Raven). The first part of this tune appears as the second part of the Pennsylvania-collected "Cheat River (The)" (Bayard, 1981; No. 370, p. 361). Thomas Hardy, English novelist, fiddler and accordion player, mentions the tune in his novel The Return of the Native (Book Second, chapter 5).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Karpeles & Schofield, 1951; p. 3. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2), 1954; p. 27. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 146. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 7.

Recorded sources:

---