Annotation:Dutch Skipper (1) (The)
X:1 T:Dutch Skipper (1) M:6/4 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:Walter Rainstorp music manuscript collection (1747, p. 30) F: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2057949 N:The cover is inscribed “Walter Rainstorp, 1747. Bought in Cheap Side, N:London, 1747”. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C gf|e3d c2 d3c B2|c4 c2 c3de2|c4c2 c3de2|d4d2 d4gf|e3dc2 d3c B2|c4c2 c3d e2|f2d2g2 g3a ^f2|g6-g4:| |:dc|B3AG2B3AG2|d4d2 d2e2f2|e3dc2 e3dc2|f4f2 f4gf|e3dc2d3cB2|c6- c4:|
DUTCH SKIPPER [1], THE. AKA - "Dutch Skipper, Second Part." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Seattle remarks on the unusual six bar second strain. The unusual number of bars per strain is repeated in by the Gows (see "Dutch Skipper (6) (The)") albeit in a somewhat different crafting. Vickers' tune is generally consistent in melodic material with the 6/8 portion of the tune printed by the Gows. The tunes are believed to have been the accompaniment to a specific country dance. However, the melody was also used in John Gay's ballad opera Achilles (1733, p. 14), in James Ralph's The Fashionable Lady, or Harlequin's Opera (1730, p. 66), and in Abraham Langford's The Lover His Own Rival (1736). Later, it was entered into the music manuscript collections of Walter Rainstorp (1747), William Vickers (1770) and Thomas Hammersley (1790).
