Annotation:Hungarian Waltz
X:1 T:Hungarian Waltz M:3/8 L:1/8 R:Waltz B:Edward Riley – “Riley’s Flute Melodies vol. 3” (1820, No. 180, p. 54) F: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab7b93e0-f959-0139-46b9-0242ac110002#/?uuid=277ff190-2ae4-013a-5cb8-0242ac110003 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G|(gf) G|(ed) G|(cB) G|(ed) G|(gf) G|(ed) G|(dc) A|G2:| |:B|(cB) G|(ed) G|(cB) G|(ed) G|(gf) G|(ed) G|(dc) A|G2:| |:d|(db).a|(gB).d|(cA).f|(gb) .d|d(ba)|.g(Bd)|(cA).f|.g2:| |:B|(cA).f|(gb) B|(cA)f|g2d|(db).a|(gB).d|(cA).f|g2:|]
HUNGARIAN WALTZ. AKA and see "Drink Your Tea Love," "Grand Duke Nicholas, "When I was a Lady." English, Waltz (3/8 time). England; Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Dorset. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. A highly popular tune which may or may not have been Hungarian in origin; it appears in several English musicians' music copybooks of the 1830's and 1840's. The Hungarian Waltz title, however, speaks not to origins but to a specific type of dance developed in the mid-19th century from a dance form called the Rheinlander, or Schottische. Novelist Thomas Hardy, himself an accordion player and fiddler, mentions the tune in scene notes to his work The Dynasts (1904-08):
The 'Hungarian Waltz' having also been danced, the hostess calls up the Highland soldiers to show the foreign guests what a Scotch reel is like. The men put their hands on their hips and tread it out briskly. While they stand aside and rest 'The Hanovarian Dance' is called.
