Annotation:Young May Moon (1) (The)

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YOUNG MAY MOON [1], THE. AKA and see "New May Moon." English, Jig and Morris Dance Tune; Scottish, Jig. England, North West, Dorset. Scotland, Low Lands. D Major (Raven, Trim, Wade): C Major (Carlin, Kerr, Williamson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Raven): AAB (Williamson): ABB (Wade): AABB (Kerr, Trim): AA'BB (Carlin). "This tune was popular in the 19th century as a jig for country dances in South Scotland. It comes from Davie's Caledonian Repository for Violin (1816). However, it sounds so English, I've included it" (in that section) {Williamson, 1976}. The tune is in use as accompaniment for a single step dance in the North West (England) morris dance tradition, and (as "New May Moon") appears in a Yorkshire MS collection of the mid-19th century.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 50, p. 38. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2); No. 260, p. 28. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 118. Trim (The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 48. Wade (Mally’s North West Morris Book), 1988; p. 5. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; p. 20.

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