MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8) G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The melody first appears in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1750). It also appears in Richard Baldwin's periodical London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer of October, 1756 (p. 501). "Much Ado about Nothing" also appears in the music copybooks of London musicians Walter Rainstorp (begun in 1747) and Thomas Hammersley (1790).
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 200.
