Bath Carnival (1)

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Theme code Index	35 66 63 7L7L
Also known as	Keppel's Delight
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances vol. 4
Tune and/or Page number	p. 7
Year of publication/Date of MS	1780
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BATH CARNIVAL. AKA and see "Keppel's Delight." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody under this title first appears in Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 4 (1780), as "Keppel's Delight". The Roman name for Bath was Aquae Sulis, the 'waters of Sulis' (Sulis was a Celtic goddess with affinities to Minerva), referring to the hot springs found there, but when the English conquered the territory they called it simply 'the baths,' later simply Bath (Matthews, 1972). For many years it was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and its abbey was chosen by Dunstan as the site of the first major coronation in 973 when Edgar was crowned King of the English with his queen Elfrida. Bath regained notoriety as a spa in the 18th century when much of the town center was rebuilt, and received patronage from George III and his queen, Charlotte, and after, George IV, and it is to this era that the title speaks. The Assembly Rooms at Bath, part of the spa, were built in the 1740's and were in the form of a long, rectangular space to accommodate country dancing. The melody was published in London in 1776 (by Longman, Lukey and Broderip) again as "Keppel's Delight" (probably a reference to Admiral Augustus Keppel) in Bride's Favourite Collection of 200 Country Dances, Cotillons. This title seems to predate the "Bath Carnival" title, which, in any case, has appeared in period publications as "Bath Carnival, to the tune of Keppel's Delight."

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1989. Johnson (Twenty-Eight Country Dances as Done at the New Boston Fair), vol. 8, 1988; pg. 1.

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