Annotation:Miss Molly's Wigg
X: 1 T: Miss Molly's Wigg R: hornpipe, reel M: 2/4 L: 1/8 Z: 2011 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> B: Charles & Samuel Thompson eds "Twenty Four Country Dances", London 1774, p.24 #1 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1774/Thompson.abc K: G % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ d>Bc>A | (B>G)G2 | d>Bc>A | B4 |\ (D>FA>c) | B>GTe2 | A>FE>^c | d4 :| |:\ d=fed | ecc2 | egfe | f>dd2 |\ e>ca2 | d>Bg2 | e>cB>A | G4 :| % - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% Hands a cross foot it .|. hands a cross back again %% and foot it :|. cross over and half figure right %% Hands and left .|: :|: %%endtext
MISS MOLLY'S WIGG. AKA - "Miss Molly's Gigg." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in 1774 by the Thompsons, London music publishers, as "Miss Molly's Wigg," although it appears in one edition of their 1780 Compleat Collection vol. 4 as "Miss Molly's Gigg," corrected in another edition of their volume.
