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The Merry Lad: or, A Choice Collection of Songs; sung by Mr. Warner Bennett, At Sheffield, Scarbrough, &c.; to which is annex'd, A Set of New Country Dances for this Season (Francis Lister, Sheffield, 1753)
Publisher: Francis Lister, Printer, Sheffield / 1753 / Price One Shilling. Source: 1753-Merry_(Gale).txt (1,265 lines, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Gale CW0115630757). Provincial North-of-England song chapbook centred on the public-house and assembly-room repertoire of Mr. Warner Bennett, a Sheffield/Scarborough entertainer. Contents: Songs I-LXXV (including 'Nanny of the Hill', 'Cross-Purposes' — with the Tom/Mary/Harry/Bell love-quadrilateral later echoed in the Newbery 1753 country-dance No. 19), several humorous tales, prologues, poems, epilogues, odes, and epigrams; then, at pp.87-96, 'COUNTRY DANCES' — 35 named country-dance figure-sets composed for the 1753 season. The 35 dances are: 1. The Prince of Wales's Birth-Day; 2. Jemmey's Fancy; 3. Cadger's in the Canongate; 4. Pwimgton's Rant; 5. Trip to Maidenhead; 6. Rough and Smooth; 7. No Joy like Love; 8. The Bride has a bonnie Thing; 9. St. James's Park; 10. Lady Charlott's Delight; 11. Fair Fanny; 12. She's o'er young to Marry yet; 13. Tent and Brandy; 14. Sunbury Common; 15. Red and all Red; 16. And thou wart my only Dear; 17. Charles's Jigg; 18. The Auld Man's from Home; 19. Marshal Saxe's Tamborine; 20. The Pretty Milliner; 21. The bonniest Lass in all the World; 22. Wanton Betty's Vagaries; 23. Welcome Home again; 24. The Tea-Pot; 25. Ranting Lawyer; 26. Garrick's Delight; 27. Huddle it over; 28. Gray's-Inn Belles; 29. The Junketting-Bout; 30. Bilk the Landlord; 31. Helter Skelter; 32. Le tout Ensemble; 33. Lasses of Linlithgow; 34. Let's be Jolly; 35. Lady Termegant. Notable repertoire features: Scottish / North-country accent in 'Cadger's in the Canongate' (Canongate of Edinburgh), 'Lasses of Linlithgow', 'The Auld Man's from Home'; metropolitan London echoes in 'St. James's Park', 'Gray's-Inn Belles', 'Trip to Maidenhead', 'Sunbury Common'; celebrity-of-the-moment titles in 'Marshal Saxe's Tamborine' (Maurice de Saxe, hero of Fontenoy 1745, d. 1750) and 'Garrick's Delight' (David Garrick, then co-manager of Drury Lane). Step vocabulary and figure vocabulary identical to the Newbery Ladies 1753 parallel: cast off / cast up, set / foot it, turn (single / hands / partner / corners / contrary corners), cross over, half figure / whole figure, hands round (three / four / six), right and left (half / whole), lead down the middle / up again, gallop down, back to back, hey, hands across (right / left), lead through, lead outside, clap hands (partners / sides). Has_Step_Detail=No; figure-level prose only, no step-table format. Provincial Sheffield / Scarborough imprint — partially-regionalized echo of the metropolitan Newbery Ladies annual, together giving a North-and-South 1753 cross-section of the mid-Georgian country-dance caller's annual repertoire.Year: 1753Family: merryCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Francis Lister, Printer, Sheffield / 1753 / Price One Shilling. Source: 1753-Merry_(Gale).txt (1,265 lines, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Gale CW0115630757). Provincial North-of-England song chapbook centred on the public-house and assembly-room repertoire of Mr. Warner Bennett, a Sheffield/Scarborough entertainer. Contents: Songs I-LXXV (including 'Nanny of the Hill', 'Cross-Purposes' — with the Tom/Mary/Harry/Bell love-quadrilateral later echoed in the Newbery 1753 country-dance No. 19), several humorous tales, prologues, poems, epilogues, odes, and epigrams; then, at pp.87-96, 'COUNTRY DANCES' — 35 named country-dance figure-sets composed for the 1753 season. The 35 dances are: 1. The Prince of Wales's Birth-Day; 2. Jemmey's Fancy; 3. Cadger's in the Canongate; 4. Pwimgton's Rant; 5. Trip to Maidenhead; 6. Rough and Smooth; 7. No Joy like Love; 8. The Bride has a bonnie Thing; 9. St. James's Park; 10. Lady Charlott's Delight; 11. Fair Fanny; 12. She's o'er young to Marry yet; 13. Tent and Brandy; 14. Sunbury Common; 15. Red and all Red; 16. And thou wart my only Dear; 17. Charles's Jigg; 18. The Auld Man's from Home; 19. Marshal Saxe's Tamborine; 20. The Pretty Milliner; 21. The bonniest Lass in all the World; 22. Wanton Betty's Vagaries; 23. Welcome Home again; 24. The Tea-Pot; 25. Ranting Lawyer; 26. Garrick's Delight; 27. Huddle it over; 28. Gray's-Inn Belles; 29. The Junketting-Bout; 30. Bilk the Landlord; 31. Helter Skelter; 32. Le tout Ensemble; 33. Lasses of Linlithgow; 34. Let's be Jolly; 35. Lady Termegant. Notable repertoire features: Scottish / North-country accent in 'Cadger's in the Canongate' (Canongate of Edinburgh), 'Lasses of Linlithgow', 'The Auld Man's from Home'; metropolitan London echoes in 'St. James's Park', 'Gray's-Inn Belles', 'Trip to Maidenhead', 'Sunbury Common'; celebrity-of-the-moment titles in 'Marshal Saxe's Tamborine' (Maurice de Saxe, hero of Fontenoy 1745, d. 1750) and 'Garrick's Delight' (David Garrick, then co-manager of Drury Lane). Step vocabulary and figure vocabulary identical to the Newbery Ladies 1753 parallel: cast off / cast up, set / foot it, turn (single / hands / partner / corners / contrary corners), cross over, half figure / whole figure, hands round (three / four / six), right and left (half / whole), lead down the middle / up again, gallop down, back to back, hey, hands across (right / left), lead through, lead outside, clap hands (partners / sides). Has_Step_Detail=No; figure-level prose only, no step-table format. Provincial Sheffield / Scarborough imprint — partially-regionalized echo of the metropolitan Newbery Ladies annual, together giving a North-and-South 1753 cross-section of the mid-Georgian country-dance caller's annual repertoire. (1753). Imported from local collection.