Greenwich Park
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Greenwich Park", also known as "Come Sweet Lass" is an English air and Country<br> Dance tune in cut time or 2/4 and F Major (Barnes, Chappell, Karpeles, Raven, Sharp)<br> or G Major (Fleming-Williams). The parts are played AABB.<br> Greenwich Park is the oldest of London's nine royal parks, first enclosed by the<br> Duke Humphrey of Gloucester as a hunting ground in 1433.<br> The tune appears under this title in Henry Playford's Second Part of the Dancing<br> Master vol. 9 (1698) and in all subsequent editions through the final edition<br> of 1728 and The Compleat Academy of Complements (1685). Under the alternate title<br> "Come Sweet Lass" it appears in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and all editions<br> of D'Urfy's Pills to Purge Melancholy.<br> It was printed in<br> Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985),<br> Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 2 (1859),<br> Fleming-Williams & Shaw's English Dance Airs, Popular Selection; Book 1 (1965),<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909) and<br> Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740). <br>
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