Annotation:Cavendish Court
Tune properties and standard notation
CAVENDISH COURT. AKA - "Look Sharp." English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 and 2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAAABB. The melody (and dance instructions) were first printed in John Hinton's periodical Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London, 1756). The melody also appears in John Johnson's 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (London, 1758). An equestrian statue in marble of the Duke of Cumberland was erected in Cavendish Square, London, after 1746 and the defeat of the Jacobean uprising.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 110.
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