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