X:1
T:Scheming Jockey, The
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson -- Complete Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1788, p. 12)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
GBd dBd|dBd dBd|efg dcB|ecA A3|
GBd dBd|dBd dBd|gab dgd|BGG G2:|
|:gbg dBd|gbg dBd|gab dcB|ecA A3|
gbg dBd|gbg dBd|gfe dBg|dBG G3:|]
SCHEMING JOCKEY, THE. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller was a ballet staged in June, 1787, at the Haymarket Theatre as the end to an evening's entertainment that included a mainpiece, Two To One, and an afterpiece, A Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon. The dance was also stage as an entre-act performance after Act I and Act II of other stage plays in 1786. The tune was entered (as "Skeming Jockey") in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 98, p. 42 (ms. originally dated 1850).
