Annotation:Merry Meeting (2) (The)
X:127 T:Merry Meeting [2]. THO4.127, The A:England; London O: M:2/4 L:1/8 Z:vmp. Peter Dunk 2010/11.from a transcription by Fynn Titford-Mock 2007 B:Thompson's Compleat Coll. of 200 Favourite Country Dances Vol.IV. 1773-80 Q:1/4=140 K:G G2 Bd|cBAG|e2 fa|(gf)!wedge!e!wedge!d|(ed)!wedge!c!wedge!B|\ (cB)!wedge!A!wedge!G|FGAB|B2A2| G2 Bd|cBAG|e2 fa|(gf)!wedge!e!wedge!d|(ed)!wedge!c!wedge!B|(cB)!wedge!A!wedge!G|\ FGAF|G4:| |:GABc|dBec|dBec|dB G2|DEFG|(AF)(BG)|(AF)(BG)|AF D2| G2 Bd|cBAG|e2 fa|(gf)!wedge!e!wedge!d|\ (ed)!wedge!c!wedge!B|(cB)!wedge!A!wedge!G|FGAF|G4:|
MERRY MEETING [2], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in London by Charles and Samuel Thompson (1780), and in Glasgow by James Aird (1785). It was entered into the music manuscript collection of Ensign Thomas Molyneaux, of the British 6th Regiment, in Shelburne, Nova Scotia around 1788. It also can be found in the c. 1780 music manuscript collection of John Fife, a fifer or fiddler perhaps from Perthshire, and who may have spent time at sea (there are references to battles in Caribbean and the Mediterranean in the ms.). A different tune with the title "Merry Meeting (1) (The)" appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion.
