Annotation:Wakefield Hunt
X: 1 T: Wakefield Hunt %R: jig B: Chas & Sam Thompson "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1779", London 1779, p.78 #1 F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1779 Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> (added dance description) M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1779/Thompson.abc K: A % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ e3 c2d | ecA F2E | FGA E2c | d2c B2A | e3 c2d | ecA F2E | FGA E2d | cdB A3 :| |:\ ecA fdB | ecA F2E | FGA E2c | d2c B2A | ecA fdB | ecA F2E | FGA E2d | cdB A3 :| |:\ [E2C2][EC] [F2D2][FD] | [E2C2]c d2c | Bdf ecA | G2A B3 | [E2C2][EC] [F2D2][FD] | [E2C2]c d2c | Bdf efd | cdB A3 :| % - - - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% The First Gent: cast off & turn the 3d Lady .|. first %% Lady cast off and turn the 3d Gent: :|. Hands 6 round .|: %% lead thro' the bottom and cast up lead thro' the top %% and cast off :|: Hands 4 across at bottom quite round %% Right and Left at top .|:. :|:. %%endtext
WAKEFIELD HUNT. English, Country Dance/Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). A favorite English Country Dance. The melody, a 48-bar jig, was also entered into the 1787 music copybook of English musician John Shepherd, and the turn of the 19th century music manuscript of British army fifer John Buttery, originally from Lincolnshire. Buttery served twenty years or more in the army and returned home, but later in life emigrated to Ontario, bringing his music manuscript with him. The the latter MS. it is entitled "Mr. Jackson's Delight Quickstep." It also appears in an anonymous c. 1795 MS from Yorkshire in the possession of the Vaughan Williams Library [1].
Wakefield [2] is a city in West Yorkshire, on the River Calder. The Wakefield Hunt, however, was given up in 1812.
