Windsor Forest
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Windsor Forest" is an English country dance tune in 4/4 time and B Flat Major.<br> The parts are played AABB. Notice that the A part is only four measures repeated<br> and the B part is the usual eight measures repeated. Measures 2 - 4 of the B part modulate<br> to F and then return to Bb in measure 5.<br> Windsor Forest was a royal forest and hunting preserve that at one time covered most of<br> Berkshire, England. In 1713 Alexander Pope published a topographical poem called Windsor<br> Forest that reflects British history and politics within its 422 lines. Pope (who grew up<br> near Windsor Forest) described it but filled it with allusions to historical events,<br> wars, people and places throughout.<br> The melody was printed in numerous publications in the mid-latter 18th century, including<br> David Rutherford’s Choice Collection of Sixty of the Most Celebrated Country Dances<br> (London, 1750, and in a second volume in 1760), John Johnson’s Two Hundred Favourite<br> Country Dances, vol. 7 (London, 1756), Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1765 country dance<br> collection, and Neil Stewart’s Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign<br> Airs (Edinburgh, 1788). In addition, it appears in the music manuscript collections of<br> London musician Thomas Hammersley (1790), and Buckingham County, Virginia, fiddler<br> Linnaeus Bolling (1785).<br> It was printed in Hime's Forty Eight Original Irish Dances Never Before Printed with<br> Basses, vol. 1 (1804),<br> Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (1765).<br>
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