X:1
T:Charlotte’s Rant
M:C
L:1/8
R:Country Dance Tune
B:Straight and Skillern – Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 52, p. 26)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Amin
e2|a2a2a2^g2|a2 gf e2e2|a3b a3g|Tf4 e2e2|
a2a2a2^g2|a2 gf e2e2|a3b a3g|Tf4 e2||
g2|f3e d3f|e2 de c2e2|d3c B3d|cdcB A4|
ABcd e2e2|aaab a4|ABcd e2 de|B4 A2||
CHARLOTTE'S RANT. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody and country dance directions appear in London publisher Thomas Skillern's Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels (1780).
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 52, p. 26.
