Annotation:Seymour's Fancy

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X:1 T:Seymour's Reel M:C L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1793 (No. 227, p. 94) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G2 BG BddB|c2 ec eggB|G2 BG Bcdg|edcB A2G2:|| g2 bg afed|edef gdBG|g2 bg agfd|edef g2 ga| bagf gfed|edef gdBG|cBcd efge|dcBA G2G2||

SEYMOUR’S FANCY. AKA and see “Comely Jane Downing.” AKA – “Seymour’s Reel.” English, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was first printed in Preston’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793 (London) as “Seymour’s Reel.” Francis O'Neill must have thought it had an Irish character to it, for he included it in his Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922), although his reasoning is unexplained.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - copied from Wilson’s Companion to the Ballroom (1816) [O’Neill].

Printed sources : - O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 255. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1816; p. 85

Recorded sources: -

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