Annotation:Fairlight Down
FAIRLIGHT DOWN. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Fairlight Down" is a jig contained in a small volume of original tunes entitled A Collection of Country Dances and Waltzes (c. 1797), composed anonymously by "A Young Lady", however, according to a Ms. note on the Royal Academy of Music Library copy, the composer was a Miss Newberry. Since many of the titles are named for Sussex and its locales, it can be assumed Miss Newberry was a resident of the county. "Fairlight Down" is the name of a 175m (574 ft.) height in the South Downs, near the village of Fairlight in East Sussex. The tune (as "Fairlight Down") was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.
