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Windows 7 on Newegg – tinyurl.com Music – “The Wake Up” & “The Jigg” by 1Left myspace.com/1left
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I'd like to add, what Jigg speaks of makes good sense, however our time is at hand and by the time we put all these strong leaders from various arenas together, create platforms and gather up our voting base and send out our message, it will be too late!
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The tune is seventeenth century, possibly derived from the 'Queen's Jigg' in the _Dancing Master_.
Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood
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The tune is seventeenth century, possibly derived from the 'Queen's Jigg' in the Dancing Master.
Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912
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Bull's 'The King's Hunting Jigg,' is also in quick 4/4 time, with a similar absence of dotted notes.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Cobbler's Jig '[Appendix], 1622, and a Jigg by Matthew Locke, dated
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Dr Bull's 'King's Hunting Jigg,' not only has no dotted note, but is in common time, without even a tendency towards the rhythm of triplets.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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There was Colonel Jumper's Lady, a Colonel of the Train-Bands, that has a great Interest in her Parish; she recommends Mr. Trott for the prettiest Master in Town, that no Man teaches a Jigg like him, that she has seen him rise six or seven Capers together with the greatest
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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There's Miss Liddy can dance a Jigg, raise Paste, write a good Hand, keep an Account, give
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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The Pickled Herring however found the way to shake him; for upon his Whistling a Country Jigg, this unlucky Wag danced to it with such a Variety of Distortions and Grimaces, that the
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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