Arundel Street
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Arundel Street" is an English country dance tune and jig in 6/4 time and G Major.<br> The parts are played AB or AABB (Barlow). The melody and dance instructions were first published<br> in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 9th edition (1695) and was retained in all subsequent editions<br> through the 18th and last edition of 1728 (which was, at that time, published by John Young, heir<br> to the Playford publishing concerns). The dance and tune was also published by John Walsh in his<br> Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718, and subsequent editions of 1731 and 1754).<br> The melody has some interesting octave jumps in the B part.<br> Arundel Street was built in 1678 on part of the site of Arundel House, originally the town house<br> of the Bishops of Bath and Wells during the Middle Ages. It was in the possession of Thomas<br> Seymour, executed for treason by Henry VIII and then sold to Henry Fitz Alan, 12th Earl of Arundel.<br> The street was the location of the buildings of the Academy of Vocal Music (later the Academy of<br> Ancient Music), first instituted in the year 1725 or 1726, although Cassell (Old and New London,<br> 1878) dates it to the reign of Queen Anne (Queen 1702–1714). Arundel Street was perhaps the scene<br> of musical activity at the time of Playford's publication (1695). However, the title may also<br> refer to the Playford home on Arundel Street. Frank Kidson, in his article "John Playford and<br> 17th-century Music Publishing" (Musical Quarterly, vol. IV, 1918, p. 530) notes:<br> At the death of his father [John Playford], Henry Playford appears to have returned to the old<br> address, as his imprints give "Near the Temple Church", but in 1696 his address is altered to<br> "near Temple Bar", or "Temple Change", or at the publisher's "house in Arundel Street over against<br> the Blew Ball". This house was probably one occupied by his father in his later years after the<br> disposal of that at Islington.<br> Kidson also remarks the house was situated "towards the lower end (of the street) not far from the<br> mud which is now so happily covered by the Thames Embankment".<br> It was printed in Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740) and<br> Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985).<br>
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