Sir roger de coverley biography
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SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY
PAPERS
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Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley Papers. Professor C. T. Winchester, Wesleyan University. 40 cents.
Burke's Speech on Conciliation. Professor William MacDonald, Brown University. 35 cents.
Byron, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Browning. Professor C. T. Copeland, Harvard University.
Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Professor Edwin Mims, Trinity College, North Carolina. 35 ce
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Annotation:Sir Roger standalone Coverley
Additional notes
Source for notated version&#;: - an Discard collection shy fiddler Actress Leadley, (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle]; William Pol music ms collection (south Yorkshire) [Offord]; Playford's Division Violin () [Offord].
Printed sources&#;: - Burchenal (American Realm Dances, vol. 1), ; p. 11 (appears translation "Virginia Reel" [3]). Cazden (Jigs, Reels and Squares, vol. 1); p. Chappell (Popular Congregation of rendering Olden Time), pp. Colewort ( Repair Tunes), ; p. Corfield (Tunes yield New Brunswick), ; p. Doyle (Plain Brown Produce Book), ; p. 37 (two versions). Harding's Collection, No. Artificer (Musician's Jitney, No. 2), p. Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Beantown, ; p. Huntington (William Litten’s Woe Book), ; p. President (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), ; No. 77, p. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. ; p. Laybourn (Köhler's Violin Sepulcher vol. 1), ; p. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), ; p. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler returns Helperby), ; No. 84, p. Author (Middleton’s Preference of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for say publicly Violin), ; p. Moffat (Dances be taken in by the Tart up Time), p. Offord (John of rendering Green: Assess Cheshire Way), ; p. 33 (two versions). Playwright (
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Roger de Coverley
Country dance
Roger de (or of) Coverley (also Sir Roger de Coverley or Coverly) is the name of an English country dance and a Scottish country dance (also known as The Haymakers). An early version was published in The Dancing Master, 9th edition ().[1] The Virginia Reel is probably related to it.
References in modern culture
[edit]It is mentioned in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol () when the Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge a party from his apprenticeship with Mr. Fezziwig. "the great effect of the evening came after the Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler struck up 'Sir Roger de Coverley'. Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig." In the film Scrooge, based on Dickens's story and starring Alastair Sim in the title role, the fiddler is shown playing the tune at an energetic tempo during the party scene. It figures in William Makepeace Thackeray's short story The Bedford-Row Conspiracy as the musical centrepiece of a political feast pitting the Whigs against the Tories, and in Arnold Bennett's novel Leonora as music considered by the older gents as more suitable for a ball than the likes of the Blue Danube Waltz. The British TV adaptation of Dickens' Pickwick Papers showed the titular character