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The English dancing master or, Plaine and easie rules for the dancing of country dances : with the tune to each dance / [compiled by] John Playford ; edited by Hugh Mellor and Leslie Bridgewater.

Other author/creatorPlayford, John, 1623-1686?
Other author/creatorMellor, Hugh.
Other author/creatorBridgewater, Leslie, 1893-1975.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon : Dance, 1984.
Description[xi], 104 pages : illustrations, music ; 14 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Adsons saraband -- Al-a-mode de France -- Argerers -- All in a garden greene -- Aye me, or the Simphony -- An old man is a bed full of bones -- Blew cap -- Boat-man -- Beggar boy -- Bobbing joe -- Bath -- Broome -- Confesse his tune -- Chirping of the larke -- Castabella -- Chirping of the nightingale -- Cheerily and merrily -- Country coll -- Cuckolds all a row -- Chestnut, or doves figary -- Daphne -- Drive the cold winter away -- Dissembling love -- Dargason, or sedany -- Dull sir John -- Fine companion -- Faine I would if I could -- Fryar and the nun -- Grimstock -- Greenwood -- Gun -- Godesses -- Glory of the west -- Gathering peascods -- Graies inne maske -- Hit or misse -- Health to betty -- Have at thy coat old woman -- Halfe hanikin -- Hearts ease -- Healths -- Hockley i' th hole -- Hide Parke -- If all the world were paper -- Irish trot -- Irish lady, or Aniseed robin -- Jog on -- Jack pudding -- Jack-a-lent -- Jenny pluck pares -- Kemps jeg -- Kettle drum -- Lady Spillers -- Lord of carnarvons Jeg -- Lady Cullen -- London gentlewoman -- Lavana -- Lady lye neare me -- Lulling beyond thee -- Mage on a cree -- Milisons jeg -- Merry milke mayds -- Millfield -- Mayd peept out of the window -- Mayden lane -- Milke mayds bob -- Mundess -- Night peece -- New exchange -- Nonesuch -- Newcastle -- New new nothing -- New boepeepe -- Old mole -- Once I loved a mayden faire -- Parsons farewell -- Picking of sticks -- Peppers black -- Prince ruperts march -- etticoat wag -- Pauls steeple -- Punks delight -- Pauls wharfe -- Rose is red, and Rose is white -- Rufty, tufty -- Row well ye marriners -- Stingo, or the oyle of barley -- Saraband -- Spanish Jepsies -- Skallam fago -- Spanyard -- Souldiers life -- Saints martins -- Saturday night and sunday morne -- Staines morris -- Scotch cap -- Step stateley -- Shepheards holyday -- Slip -- Tom tinker -- Upon a summers day -- Up tayle's all -- Whish -- Whirligig -- Woody cock.
General noteTunes, followed by directions for each dance.
General noteReprint of the 1933 H. Mellor ed. ; originally published: London : Playford, 1651.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 00423424
ISBN0903102803 (pbk)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk GV1646.E6 E59 1984 ✔ Available Place Hold