Sheets with tunes from The Dancing Master 1:1

This list has 22 sheets with 27 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 the tunes listed by title. Suggestions and corrections are welcome. Please see the terms of use.


MM47 Dance tunes

Christchurch bells (for Mister Shaw's canon) / Gathering peascods MM72a MM264 / Merry, merry milkmaids / Lavena (for Picking up sticks) MM47a MM72a / Portsmouth

MM47a Lavena arrangement

Lavena (for Picking up sticks) MM47 MM72a

MM52 Playford tunes

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

MM72 Playford tunes

Chestnut aka Dove's figary (for All Saints' Day) / Upon a summer's day MM378 / Never love thee more MM72a / Arcadia / Arcadia countermelody

MM72a Playford tunes

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

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

MM149 Playing with Playford

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)

MM154a Original tunes for Playford dances

Step stately / Whirligig / Maid in the moon aka Valentine's Day MM343

MM156 Grimstock

Grimstock

MM206 New hornpipes in threes?

Cobbler's hornpipe (for Mister Englefield's new hornpipe) / A trip to the Jubilee (1) (for Edinburgh Castle) MM384 / Cheshire rounds / Dissolution of the monasteries

MM264 Playford tunes

Gathering peascods MM47 MM72a / Gathering peascods countermelody (2) / Hambleton's round O / Hambleton's round O countermelody

MM268 A Playford arrangement

Jenny pluck pears MM129 MM129a

MM307 17th and 18th century tunes for set dances

Newcastle / The barley mow / The brick makers aka The brickmakers MM228 / The dressed ship MM310

MM335 Tunes for Lord of Carnarvon's jig

Lord of Carnarvon's jig / Jack a Lent (for Lord of Carnarvan's jegg)

MM342a Winter tunes

Winter wonderland MM342 / Drive the cold winter away

MM378 Playford tunes

Upon a summer's day MM72 / Pinks and lillies / Strawberries and cream / Cream pot

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

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

MM425 Early Playford tunes

Oaken leaves / Millfield / Saturday night and Sunday morn / Peppers black / The punk's delight (the new way) / Glory of the Sun / Ten pound lass

MM473 Slow jigs from The Dancing Master

Row well ye mariners / Green sleeves and yellow lace / Hunsdon House / Bouzer Castle

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