Nonesuch
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Also known as "None Such" and "A la Mode de France".<br> King Henry VIII built an opulent hunting lodge in Duddington, near<br> Epson, Surrey, in 1538 and called it Nonesuch. It was the most<br> extravagant of Henry's 14 houses, and played a key role in the<br> development of Tudor architecture and the introduction of<br> Renaissance style in England, and was built from scratch to<br> adorn Henry's new hunting estate close to London.<br> Nonesuch took almost ten years to complete, and was not quite done<br> when Henry died in 1547.<br> Queen Mary I allowed it to go to Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel<br> in exchange for some of Arundel's Norfolk estates. Young Queen Elizabeth I<br> enjoyed visiting Nonesuch as a guest of Lord Lumley, son-in-law of the<br> Earl of Arundel, and it was recorded that "there is much dancing of<br> country dances in the privy chamber at Nonesuch, before the Queen's<br> majesty, who is exceeding pleased therewith." Elizabeth enjoyed Nonesuch<br> so much that she purchased the estate in the last decade of her reign,<br> returning it to the crown.<br> "None Such" was published in the first edition of The English Dancing Master (1651).<br> Under the alternate title it appears in Musick's Delight on the Cithren and<br> Musick's Recreation on the Lyra-Viol, sometimes in a major key.<br> It was also printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time,<br> vol. 1, (1859), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk<br> Dance Airs (1951) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes, (1909).<br> It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master by The Telemann Society and,<br> I believe, on one of the Golden Ring albums.<br>
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