Annotation:Lady Holderness's Jigg

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LADY HOLDERNESS'S JIG. English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared in print in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (London, 1751). Lady Holderness was blackballed from the assembly rooms at Almacks by the clique of aristocratic matrons who held power there in the 1760's, for some unknown infraction. Perhaps it was for her smuggling of 114 gowns and other prohibited finery from Paris, where she had travelled in the company of her husband, Lord Holderness, on state matters.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 11.

Recorded sources:

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