Mage on a Cree
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Mage on a Cree" is an English Country Dance tune in 6/8 time and G Dorian mode.<br> The parts are played AA.<br> The tune appears in the first edition of John Playford's English Dancing Master (1651).<br> It continued to be published as "Mage on a Cree" until the 4th edition of 1670,<br> when the title was altered to "Mage on a Tree". The 'Mage' version of the title was<br> retained through the 7th edition of 1686. In the 8th through 16th editions the title<br> was altered again, to "Madge on a Tree" and in the final editions of the Dancing Master<br> it appears as "Madge on a Tree; or Margery Cree".<br> The melody was also published by the Walshes, in The Compleat Country Dancing Master<br> (editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754).<br> The title has not been definitively explained, although it may have been a corruption<br> of an Irish word or phrase. It has nothing to do with the mostly Canadian<br> Native-American tribe, the Cree.<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> Fleming-Williams's English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1 (1965),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1994) and<br> Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br>
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