Sheets with tunes from The Country Dance Book
This list has 34 sheets with 47 selected tunes. Tunes are linked to other sheets where they appear, possibly under a different title. Dances associated with tunes are shown in brackets, sometimes from the original sheet and sometimes not. You can also see these tunes listed by title, or search for another source or a composer. Suggestions and corrections are welcome. Please see the terms of use.
Bacup / Abbot's Bromley / Ribbon dance
Christchurch bells (for Mister Shaw's canon) / Gathering peascods MM72a MM264 / Merry, merry milkmaids / Lavena (for Picking up sticks) MM47a MM72a / Portsmouth
Lavena (for Picking up sticks) MM47 MM72a
Lull me beyond thee / Mister Isaac's maggot / Orleans baffled / Bobbing Joe aka Bobbing around / Up tails all / Up tails all countermelody 1 / Up tails all countermelody 2 / Up tails all three parts
Chestnut aka Dove's figary (for All Saints' Day) / Upon a summer's day MM378 / Never love thee more MM72a / Arcadia / Arcadia countermelody
Never love thee more MM72 / Never love thee more countermelody / Gathering peascods MM47 MM264 / Gathering peascods countermelody (1) / Lavena (for Picking up sticks) MM47 MM47a
Under and over (for Jacob Hall's jig and Sting in the tail) / Jacob Hall's jig MM177 / The Bishop (for The Bishop and The Bishop (of Exeter)) / Zealand aka Noint the teazer / Zealand countermelody
MM129 Fiddle parts for 17th century English Playford dances
The mulberry garden MM129a / Oranges and lemons (2) MM129a / Jenny pluck pears MM129a MM268
MM129a Accordion parts for 17th century English Playford dances
The mulberry garden MM129 / Oranges and lemons (2) MM129 / Jenny pluck pears MM129 MM268
Wood lark / Bury Fair / The British hero aka The British toper MM422 / The British hero countermelody / The country farmer / The country farmer countermelody
The Princess / Dame of honour / Jamaica / Jamaica countertune / The merry conceit
MM142 Badinage in the ballroom
Nymph divine / My Lord Byron's maggot / Rural dance / Miss Sayer's allemande
Haste to the wedding aka Come, haste to the wedding or Rural felicity / William Kimber / Turnpike Side / Upton stick dance / The seven stars aka The moon and seven stars / The bull's head
Parsons farewell / Nonesuch / A la mode de France (for Nonesuch)
MM154 Tunes from The Dancing Master 1st edition
The health aka The merry wassail / Jack Pudding aka Merry Andrew (2) (for Step stately) / Woodicock (for Whirligig)
Grimstock
The Spring / The Spring countermelody MM241a / Spring garden / Easter Eve / Easter Thursday
Gathering peascods MM47 MM72a / Gathering peascods countermelody (2) / Hambleton's round O / Hambleton's round O countermelody
Jenny pluck pears MM129 MM129a
The hare's maggot (for Up with Aily) / Up with Aily / Britain's glory MM285 / If love's a sweet passion
MM307 17th and 18th century tunes for set dances
Newcastle / The barley mow / The brick makers aka The brickmakers MM228 / The dressed ship MM310
Saint Martin's Lane / Siege of Limerick / Short and sweet / Lilli Burlero aka Protestant boys MM396
MM335 Tunes for Lord of Carnarvon's jig
Lord of Carnarvon's jig / Jack a Lent (for Lord of Carnarvan's jegg)
MM337 Tunes for The geud man of Ballangigh
Hunt the squirrel (for The geud man of Ballangigh) / The geud man of Ballangigh aka A New Scotch Jigg
Upon a summer's day MM72 / Pinks and lillies / Strawberries and cream / Miss Grace Hayes's delight aka Grace Hays's delight or Miss Grace Hays's delight (for Cream pot)
MM396 Jigs from The Dancing Master
Chelsea Reach aka Buckingham-House or Chelsey Reach / The tythe pig / Nonesuch II / Lilli Burlero aka Protestant boys MM314
MM403 Marches from The Dancing Master
Maiden Lane / Waltham Abbey / The French embassador aka The parson's cap / Bugbee's Hole aka The Beadle of Grubb Street or Burghee's Hole
Epping Forrest / Wolverton Hall / Woodstock Park
MM416 Slow jigs for English dances
I care not for these ladies / Mall Peatley aka Moll Pately or Moll Peatly / Hide Parke aka Hyde Park / Frances Ann's delight / Shandy Hall
Oaken leaves / Millfield / Saturday night and Sunday morn / Peppers black / The punk's delight (the new way) / Glory of the Sun / Ten pound lass
MM442 Triple-time tunes from The Dancing Master
Saint Margaret's Hill / Dick's maggot aka Double the cape / Mister Beveridge's maggot / Barham Down
Come all you jolly ploughboys / The curly-headed ploughboy (for The ploughboy) / Speed the plough
MM473 Slow jigs from The Dancing Master
Row well ye mariners / Green sleeves and yellow lace / Hunsdon House / Bouzer Castle
The knife's edge / Brighton Camp aka The girl I left behind me (for Jonny fetch your wife back) / The rose tree / Fred Pigeon's / Aunt Crisps
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