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X:1 T:Nancy’s Fancy. Irish M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Petrie – Third Collection of Strathspey Reels (1802, p. 24) N:Dedicated to Francis Garden Esq. Junior of Troup by N:Robert Petrie at Kirkmichael. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|df Tf2|ge Te2|fdcd|e/d/e/f/ eA| df Tf2|geeg|fe/d/ c/d/e/f/|d2d2:| |:A/B/4c/4|dcBA|GFED|TBAdF|E2 E(A/B/4c/4)| dcBA|GFED|Ad c/d/e/f/|d2d2:| |:f/d/f/d/ f/d/f/d/|g/e/g/e/ g/e/g/e/|f/d/f/d/ f/d/f/d/|e/d/c/B/ Ag| f/d/f/d/ f/d/f/d/|g/e/g/e/ g/e/g/e/|g/f/e/d/ c/d/e/f/|d2d2:|]


NANCY'S FANCY. Scottish?, Irish?, English?; Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). G Major (Kennedy & Raven): C Major (Karpeles, Sharp): D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Karpeles, Sharp): AABC (Kennedy & Raven). The melody first was printed by Perthshire fiddler-composer Robert Petrie, in his Third Collection of Strathspey Reels (1802, p. 24), where he identified its provenance as "Irish". However, it has no Irish melodic character to it, and sounds like a generic country dance, provenance unknown. The first part of this tune appears as the second part of the Pennsylvania-collected "Cheat River (The)" (Bayard, 1981; No. 370, p. 361). Thomas Hardy, English novelist, fiddler and accordion player, mentions the tune in his novel The Return of the Native (Book Second, chapter 5).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Collected in Devonshire in 1907 by Cecil Sharp from William Ford, a sixty-two-year-old blacksmith living at Upton Pyne, near Exeter. Ford was a concertina player and dancer for most of his life. Priscilla Wyatt-Edgell said of him: "No one, I should think, cold be more difficult to collect from. He played as if he was inventing the tune as he went along and he never could explain anything as it all come more or less naturally to him."

Printed sources : - Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 3. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2), 1954; p. 27. Petrie (Third Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1802; p. 24. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 146. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 7.

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