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 Playford, John, 1623-1686?
Other author Mellor, Hugh, editor.
Other author Bridgewater, Leslie, 1893-1975, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Dance, 1984.
Description[xi], 104 pages : illustrations, music ; 14 cm
Subjects
Folk dancing, English.
Country dancing--England.
Dance--England.

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.
Abstract This is an unabridged reprint of the edition of John Playford's The English Dancing Master which was published by Hugh Mellor in 1933. It was based on the original edition of 1651, with the music edited and put into modern notation by Leslie Bridgewater. The book gives performing instructions and melody lines for over 100 community country dances.
General noteTunes, followed by directions for each dance.
General noteReprint of the 1933 H. Mellor edition. Originally published: London : Playford, 1651.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 00423424
ISBN0903102803 (pbk.)
ISBN9780903102803 (pbk.)

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