Annotation:Swan (Reel) (The)
X: 1 T:Swan. Ru2.090, The L:1/8 B:RUTHERFORD Complete Collection of 200 Country Dances Vol.2; 1759. Z:vmp.Mike Hicken 2015 www.village-music-project.org.uk N: * In the original this note is shown as a dotted crotchet. The first and second time bars have N: been added to give the correct change to the second part. N: The final symbol of dance notation in the original is :| M:2/4 Q:1/4=140 K:G |:D|G2 GB|AF D2 |A2 Ac|BGGB|c2 ce|dBAG|AcBA|1 "*"G3 :|2 G4 || |: d2 dg|fe d2|cABG|AFED|d2 dg|fedc|BGAF|G2G,2 :| |: BGAc|BGAc|BGdG|A/G/F/E/ D2|BGAc|BGAc|BdgA|G2 G,2 :| W: W: First Cu: foot it to the 2d Wo. & turn 3 .| the W: same to the 2d Man :| cross over two Cu: lead to W: the top & cast off .|. Hands round 4 at bottom .|. W: Right & Left at top :|
SWAN (Reel), THE. English, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BBCC. The melody appears in print in David Rutherford’s Choice Collection of Sixty of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1750), reprinted in his Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 2 (1760). Source for notated version: the 1779 music manuscript of James Biggins (Leeds, west Yorkshire) [Callaghan].
