The Lord of Carnarvon's Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Lord of Carnarvon's Jig" is an English country dance tune in cut time and G Major.<br> It appears in the first edition of John Playford's English Country Dancing Master (1651) and<br> in all subsequent editions through the 17th (1721), then published by John Young. More than<br> seventy years after Playford's original publication, John Walsh printed a set similar to<br> Playford's in his Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1731). Samuel Bayard finds an<br> earlier version of the melody in the Scottish Skene Manuscipt (c. 1615) as "Blew Ribbon<br> Scottish Measure" and says a much later version is printed in Gow's Complete Repository (1802)<br> under the title "Blue Ribbon Scottish Measure". Bayard thought the style of the air sounded<br> Scottish. <br> The title refers to Robert Dormer (1610-1643), 1st Earl of Carnarvon, who married into the<br> wealthy and influential family of the Earl of Pembroke. A lover of "the looser exercises of<br> pleasure" and of hunting, hawking and travel, Dormer proved an excellent soldier when he<br> declared for King Charles, becoming an able and effective Royalist commander who won the<br> respect of his contemporaries. He was with the King's forces at their success in the Battle of<br> Newbury, where he acquitted himself admirably. However, after the battle, with the opposing<br> forces disengaging and dissipating, Dormer had the misfortune to encounter a group of<br> Parliamentary soldiers. He was recognized and dispatched with a sword. A likeness of Dormer was<br> painted by Anthony van Dyck in his group portrait of the Pembroke family. <br> It was printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985)<br> and Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005).<br>
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