Annotation:Old Plantation Girls

Back to Old Plantation Girls

---

OLD PLANTATION GIRLS. American, Slip Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Identified by 18th century Glasgow publisher James Aird as "Virginian." There is nothing particularly American in the melody's character, however, and probably has a British or Irish provenance.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 148, p. 52. Johnson (A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century), 1998; p. 15.

Recorded sources:

---