Annotation:Trifle (The)
X:1 T:Trifle, The M:9/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D D|F>GA dBG AFD|EFG efg Tc2A|F>GA B/c/dB AFD|FAF Edc d2:| |:g|f>ed (f/g/a)f ecA|BGB efg c2A|FDF ABc def|Bgf edc d2:||
TRIFLE. English, Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Trifle" appears to be unique to London music publisher Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1773), although the title is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript, and was presumably the same tune printed by the Thompsons. There was a song of the same period called “The Trifle,” set to a 6/8 tune.
