Greenwood or The Huntsman
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Also known as "The Woods So Wild", "Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde" or "The Huntsman".<br> Published by Playford in the first edition of The English Dancing<br> Master (1651) and retained through the 8th, published in 1690. With the 5th<br> edition of 1675 the alternate title "Huntsman" was added.<br> The melody was a great favorite in Elizabethan times along with others<br> found in Playford; "Heart's Ease", "Daphne" and "Woodycock".<br> The tune was used in two important keyboard works of the late Tudor era:<br> - 14 variations by William Byrd. Byrd's composition appears in several<br> manuscripts including two of the most important collections of keyboard<br> music of the Renaissance, My Ladye Nevells Booke and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book<br> - 8 variations by Orlando Gibbons also appear in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book<br> It was also printed in Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br> It was recorded on the lute on The Woods So Wild by Julian Bream.<br>
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