Annotation:Rocket (The)
X:1 % T:Rocket, The M:C L:1/8 N:The ‘G’ note in measure four may be played sharp. B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D f|e>de>c d A2B|AG/F/ EA/G/ F D2 f|e>de>d c a2 d|cB/A/ BA/G/ A3:| |:g|f>ga>f g b2 g|e>fg>e f a2f|dABF G E2g|faAc d3:||
ROCKET, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773). It is one of numerous melodies from the Thompson collection that were entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (Norwich, Conn.).