Annotation:Pilgrim (1) (The)

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PILGRIM [1], THE. AKA and see "Lord Foppington (2)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. “The Pilgrim” was first printed as a longways dance (“for as many as will”) in the 11th edition of Henry Playford's Dancing Master (London, 1701), and appears in all subsequent editions of the long-running series, through the 18th (published by John Young in 1728). The alternate title “Lord Phoppington” (“Lord Foppington”) appears in each edition (not to be confused with another Playford melody in the 11th edition called “Lord Phoppington or the new Lord Phoppington”). The jig was also published by the Walsh family in The Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1718, and editions of 1731 and 1754), with the same title and alternate title. Lord Phoppington was a burlesque character in John Vanbrugh’s The Relaspe, or Virtue in Danger, performed in Drury Lane in Nov., 1696. The play was a sequel to Colley Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift, or Virtue Rewarded, and Cibber himself played Lord Foppington in Vanbrugh’s play, which was successful enough to pull the theatre out of imminent bankruptcy. The sequel was the surviving work, of greater fame.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master), 1985; No. 462, p. 106. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

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