Christmass Cheer

X: 1
T: Christmass Cheer
T: Christmas Cheer
P: Longways for as many as will
%R: waltz
B: "The Compleat Country Dancing-Master" printed by John Walsh, London ca. 1740
S: 6: CCDM1 http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Country_Dancing-Master_(Various) V.1 p.147 #202 (194)
B: "The Dancing-Master: Containing Directions and Tunes for Dancing" printed by W. Pearson for John Walsh, London ca. 1709
S: 7: DMDfD http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=89751228 p.295 "C c 3"
N: Repeats added to satisfy the "Each Strain twice" instruction.
N: The last note of bar 10 is a in CCDM1 and g in DMDfD. Neither sounds wrong.
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 3/4
L: 1/4
K: Dm
% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
A |\
(df)d | (^cA)^c | (df)d | ^c2A | (df)d | (eg)e | (fa)^c | d2e |\
(fa)f | (gb)[ag] | (ab)a | g2a | (ba)g |(ac)f | (ga)e | f2 :|
|: c |\
(Ac)A | (Gc)G | (Ac)A | G2c | Acf | def | efd | ^c2a |\
fad | ^cAa | fad | ^c2a | fad | ^cAd | d>e^c | d2 :|
% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/JohnWalsh/alltunes/0283

Visitors to this tune page also viewed:

Pollonaise

Golden Eagle Hornpipe

Laá' mein Jogli, laá dir sagen (5-46), S. 77