Annotation:Ormond House

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ORMOND HOUSE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in the 11th edition of Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 11th edition (1701, as "Ormon House"), and was retained in the long-running series through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns). named perhaps in honor of James Butler (1665-1745), the last Duke of Ormond, and a successful military commander. The Butlers were powerful Irish lords and ardent Jacobites, whose cause was lost along with their lands and title early in the18th century. As Protestant nobility the Butlers held Ireland for Charles I and Charles II, but maintained a residence, Ormond House, in London on St. James's Square. As with all the Duke’s Engish property, it was attained in 1716 with the accession of Hanoverian King George I.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician No. 5: Mostly Irish Airs), 1985 (revised 2000); p. 16. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 33.

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