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.


MM7 Ritual dance tunes

Bacup / Abbot's Bromley / Ribbon dance

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

MM105 Playford tunes

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

MM134 Playford tunes

Wood lark / Bury Fair / The British hero aka The British toper MM422 / The British hero countermelody / The country farmer / The country farmer countermelody

MM136 Dance tunes c1700

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

MM145 English jigs

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

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)

MM156 Grimstock

Grimstock

MM241 A seasonal medley

The Spring / The Spring countermelody MM241a / Spring garden / Easter Eve / Easter Thursday

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

MM277 Dance tunes c1700

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

MM314 Tunes by Henry Purcell

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

MM378 Playford tunes

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

MM404 Jigs for English places

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

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

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

MM464 Tunes for Plough Monday

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

MM475 English polkas

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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