Annotation:East Indian

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EAST INDIAN. English, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The jig appears in Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year (1783, p. 63) and their Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5) (London, 1788, p. 63). Researcher Graham Christian (2015) finds the publication of the country dance to closely follow the staging in London's Haymarket of East Indian, a play by "a poetess" (according to George Coleman's poetical prologue). Unfortunately, it was not a success and closed after nine performances.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 37. Christian (The Playford Assembly), 2015; p. 28. Thompson (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1783), 1783; p. 63. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 126, p. 63.

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