Annotation:Scoulding Pair (The)
X: 1 T: the Scoulding Pair T: Longways for as many ... %R: jig B: Daniel Wright "Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances" 1740 p.63 S: http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/dancebooks.cgi Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: Repeats modified to match the "Each strain twice" instruction. M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DanielWright/CCCCD.abc K: G % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - d |\ BAG G2A | BGF GAB | cde dgd | dgd dgd | efe dcB | A>Bc/d/ edc |BAG F2E | D3- D2 :| |: d |\ dDD Ddc | dcB dcB | cCC CcB | cBA cBA | BB,B, B,BB | AA,A, A,AA | GB,A, G,GF | G3 G,2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%center Each strain twice. %%begintext align %% The 1st Man sides to the 2d Wo. and turns %% her with his right hand, then your partner %% with your left hand; then your Partner does the same :| %% Then cross ouer and figure in, %% and right and left quite round, then single %% figure at top, and right and left quite %% round with the 3d Cu. %%endtext % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%sep 2 4 300
SCOULDING PAIR, THE. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Scoulding Pair" was first published in Daniel Wright's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (c. 1740--dates vary--, p. 63), published in London by John Johnson.
