Annotation:Lady Caroline Lee's Waltz
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LADY CAROLINE LEE WALTZ. English, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune is contained in the 19th century Joseph Kershaw Manuscript. Kershaw was a fiddle player who lived in the remote area of Slackcote, Saddleworth, North West England, who compiled his manuscript from 1820 onwards, according to Jamie Knowles. It is also found in Ann Winnington's music manuscript book, c. 1810 (No. 27). The inscription inside the front cover of her book indicates she lived in New York.
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Knowles (The Joseph Kershaw Manuscript), 1993; No. 51. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 80 (originally set in the key of 'C' major in the ms.).
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