Annotation:Innocent Maid
Tune properties and standard notation
INNOCENT MAID. English, Country Dance (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An entry in the diary of Elizabeth Bancroft (Groton, Mass.), April, 1794, reads: "
Tuesd 15 Went to the dancing school danced a number of set dances, a room full of spectators. Wed 16 Was at the dancing, a number of spectators. we danced the soldiers Joy, York Fuzilier, Innocent Maid, White Cockade, Rural Felicity, &c. (Morrison, 1976).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Morrison (Twenty-Four Early American Country Dances, Cotillions & Reels, for the Year 1976), 1976; p. 27. Thomson (24 Country Dances for the Year 1780).
Recorded sources: