Annotation:Elizabeth Canning
Tune properties and standard notation
ELIZABETH CANNON. AKA - "Elizabeth Canning." English, Reel. A Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared under the title "Elizh. Canning" in London publisher John Johnson's Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (1758), followed by Charles and Samuel Thompson's 1765 country dance collection where it is given as "Elizabeth Canning." However, a number of musicians' manuscript collections and copybooks give the title as "Elizabeth Cannon," such as Northumbrian musician William Vickers, who included it in his 1770 manuscript collection (as "Elizabeth Cannon"). In America it appears in the music copybooks of Samuel Hudson and Nicholas Cook (Johnston, Rhode Island, 1772), fiddler Whittier Perkins (Massachusetts, 1790), fifer Aaron Thompson (New Jersey, 1777), and flute player John Hoff (Lancaster, Pa., 1797). The latter two musicians gave the tune as a quickstep march.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 510. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 69.
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