The Queen’s Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Queen's Jig" is a Scottish and English country dance tune in 6/4 or 6/8 time in<br> D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The tune dates to 1701 when it was published in Playford’s Dancing Master,<br> 11th edition. It was retained in subsequent editions of the long-running series,<br> through the 18th and final edition (then published by John Young, heir to the<br> Playford publishing concerns). Later it appeared in Walsh’s Compleat County Dancing<br> Master, vol. 1, of 1718. <br> It was printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master<br> (1985),<br> Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Fleming Williams & Shaw's English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1 (1965),<br> Lerwick's Kilted Fiddler (1985),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br> It was recorded by Dave Swarbrick on Lift the Lid and Listen (1979).<br>
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