Annotation:Sweet Richard
X: 1 T: Sweet Richard T: Longways for as many as will. %R: reel, march B: Daniel Wright "Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances" 1740 p.19 S: http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/dancebooks.cgi Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: C| L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DanielWright/CCCCD.abc K: G % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [|\ D2G2 G2AG | F2 A4 BA |G2AB cBAG | B2 d4 c2 | B3c d2e2 | d2c2 B4 |cBAG FGAF | G4 G,4 |]| g2g2 g2ag | f3e defg |a2g2 f2e2 | f2 d4 cB | c2 e4 dc | B2 d4 cB |cdBc ABGA | F2 d4 c2 | B3c d2e2 | d2c2 B4 |cBAG FGAF | G4 G,4 |] % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% The 1st Cu. lead thro' the 2d Cu. & sett in the 2d Cu. %% Place, cast up & cast off .| 2d Cu. do the same :| The %% 1st Man change Place with 2d Wo. & stand still, & %% their Partners change. The two Men cast round %% the two Wo. into their Places & turn, the Wo. %% lead between the two Men & turn at the same time .| %% The 1st Cu. lead thro' the 3d Cu. & thro' the 2d Cu. %% Right & left quite round with the 2d Cu. and turn %%endtext % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%sep 2 4 300
SWEET RICHARD. English, American; Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The early versions of the tune appear in John Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, p. 112) in Wright's Compleat Collection, published in London by Johnson c. 1742. Dancing Master Thomas Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room, 1816) gives its provenance as Welsh, and Glasgow editor James Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3, 1788) also says “Sweet Richard” is Welsh, although his is a different tune altogether than the one here. A variant of this tune appears in 24 Country Dances for the Year 1771 (Thompson, London), and a third version of the melody was copied in 1782 by Aaron Thompson, Fife Major in the New Jersey line and a native of Connecticut. “Sweet Richard” also appears in the music manuscript copybook of Captain George Bush, of the Continental Army. Kate Van Winkler Keller (“Fiddle, Dance and Sing with George Bush”) notes the similarity between Bush and Thompson’s music and dance figures, and believes it is possible the both collected dances that may have been performed in the winter encampments at Morristown, New Jersey (1778-1780). The version published in England by Thompson was reprinted in America in Select Collection (Ostego, New York) in 1808, and was entered into the 1781 music copybook of Fife Major Nathaniel Brown (“of the Fourth Connt. Regt,” stationed at Verplank’s Point on the Hudson in Westchester County, and in Durham, Conn.). A slightly altered version of the Thompson tune also appears in the music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, begun in 1770. The same "Sweet Richard" title, attached to yet a fourth tune, appears in Preston's 24 Country Dances for the Year 1797 (London).
Gourd Music 110, Barry Phillips – “World Turned Upside Down” (1992).
