Annotation:Romp (2) (The)
X:1 % T:Romp [2], The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:County Dance B:Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1740, p. 97) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A2| AGF FED|Dd2-d2A|AGF FED|Dd2-d2e| fed edc|dcB cde|E3 ^G3|A3-A2:| |:e|cde A2e|cde A2A|FGA D2A|FGA D2e|edc cBA| Ae2-e2A|AFG AFG|Ad2-d2B|AGF E2D|D3-D2:|]
ROMP [2], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first printed in John Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1735 & 1749), followed by inclusion in Henry Carey's The Musical Century, vol. 1 (1737, p. 28), and Daniel Wright's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (1740, p. 97). It was also entered into the music manuscript collection of American flute player Henry Beck (1786).
As a song "The Romp [2]" was printed on period song-sheets.