Bobbing Joan (Gm)

X:6
T:Bobbing Joan (Gm)
% NFF Book 2020
% Bush Traditions recording played by Roland Clarke
C:trad English (C.1650)
S:see also The Convict Dance Music Research Project, by Dr. Heather Blasdale-Clarke at QUT
Z:arranged by Roland Clarke, 2019
H:This tune referenced in a police report in the Sydney Gazette and
H:New South Wales Advertiser, 6th of December 1832
N:Earliest appearance as 'Bobbing Jo', in Playfords English Dancing Master, 1651.
N:Later references in Hime's 24 Original Irish Dances, 1795,
N:and again in Wilson's Companion to the Ballroom c.1820,
B:H.E Clarke, Social Dance and Early Australian Settlement, PhD Thesis, QUT, 2018, 189
O:Sydney, NSW, Australia
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Gm
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Bobbing Joan (Gm) - played by Roland Clarke

Additional Information

Additional information may be available on the following people or organisations associated with the collection of this tune:
| Roland Clarke | Convict Dance and Music Research Project |