Christchurch Bells
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Christchurch Bells", also known as "Christ Church Bells in Oxon" is an English<br> country dance tune in 2/2 time and C Major.<br> The tune was first published in 1679 by Playford in the supplement to the 6th<br> edition of the Dancing Master and was retained in all subsequent editions of the<br> long-running series. Christchurch Bells are "in Oxon" (Playford) and the tune<br> is described as a three part round. "Christ Church Bells" also appears in<br> John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing-Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and<br> 1754 and in the ballad operas The Village Opera (1729), Polly (1729),<br> Bay's Opera (1730) and Chambermaid (1730). It also appears in the 1790 music<br> manuscript collection of London musician Thomas Hammersley. The first<br> mention of Christ Church bells, Oxford, was in 1546, when the Diocesan see<br> moved from Osney Abbey to Christ Church, bringing along the bells.<br> Great Tom, the loudest bell, was recast by Christopher Hodson (a bell-founder<br> from London) in 1680 an event that was perhaps the inspiration for the title. <br> It was printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's<br> Dancing Master (1985), Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909) and Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master,<br> Volume the Fourth (1740).<br>
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