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.
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
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
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
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
Gathering peascods MM47 MM72a / Gathering peascods countermelody (2) / Hambleton's round O / Hambleton's round O countermelody
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)
Winter wonderland MM342 / Drive the cold winter away
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
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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