The Gipsie's Round
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Gipsie's Round, also known as "Upon a Summer's Day" is an English country dance tune <br> in 6/4 time and G Mixolydian. The parts are played AB.<br> The air appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and is possibly set or composed by <br> William Byrd. Chappell notes that the melody was known from Elizabethan times and that<br> round dances were as popular as longways dances at that time. They were as much in favor<br> at the Elizabethan-era court as at the countryside Maypole.<br> The spelling "gipsie" is an antique one.<br> It was printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1 (1859).<br> <br>
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