Annotation:Prince Adolphus' Fancy

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PRINCE ADOLPHUS' FANCY. English, Country Dance & Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Prince Adophus [1] (1774-1850) was the tenth child and seventh son of George III and Queen Charlotte, and Duke of Cambridge from 1801. At the time this reel was first published, the young Duke was in the court of Prussia to perfect his knowledge of military tactics, and was appointed colonel in the Hanoverian army. After serving for a short time as a volunteer with the British forces before Dunkirk, he arrived in England in September, 1794, towards the close of which he was appointed colonel of the Hanoverian guards. Adophus served in the campaign of 1794-5 as colonel and major-general in General Walmoden's corps, in Hanoverian service.

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Recorded sources: James Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1797; No. 42, p. 16. Preston (Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1794).