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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
The tune and country dance directions ("For four") were first published<br> under this title in the first edition of The English Dancing<br> Master (1651), however, the melody clearly predates Playford’s volume.<br> Sam Bayard (in his article “A Miscellany of Tune Notes”) found an earlier<br> version of the melody in the Skene Manuscript (c. 1615) under the<br> title “Ostend.” Early versions also appear in Adriaen Valerius's<br> Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck (1626, as “La Boree”), the Starter’s<br> Friesche Lust-Hof (1621) and the Thysius Lute Book (c. 1600);<br> the first two works refer to the tune as a bourrée. It has been<br> sourced to France, where, for example, it appears in a lute<br> collection by Nicolas Vallet entitled Secret des Muses (1615),<br> as “Bouree d’Avignon.”<br> It was also printed in Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100<br> English Folk Dance Airs (1951) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br> It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master by The Telemann<br> Society and A Trip to Kilburn by The Baltimore Consort.<br>
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