The Rummer
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Rummer" is an English country dance and jig in 6/4 or 6/8 time and F Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> The melody first appears as a country dance in John Playford's Dancing Master,<br> 7th edition (1666) and in all subsequent editions of that volume through the 18th<br> and last edition of 1728 (at which time the series was being published by John Young).<br> The melody and dance directions were also published by rival London publisher John<br> Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master (editions of 1718, 1731, and 1754). <br> A 'rummer' was a drinking glass. However, it is more likely that the tune was named<br> for "The Rummer", a tavern at 45 Charing Cross, London, that eventually became a<br> restaurant called "The Ship", its direct descendant. John Timbs, in his Club Life<br> of London, vol. II (London, 1866), records that The Rummer stood two doors down<br> from another, more famous London eating house called Locket's or Lockitt's, and<br> was situated midway between the Royal Palace and coffee houses and taverns of<br> St. James's to the north, and the government offices and Parliament to the south.<br> Nearby were the quarters of the Horse Guards (built by Charles II in the 1660's).<br> The Rummer was kept until about 1702 by Samuel Prior, and the clientele was a<br> combination of army officers, Parliamentarians, aristocrats and merchants.<br> A Masonic lodge also met there. In 1710 The Rummer removed to the water-side of<br> Charing Cross and burnt down Nov. 7th, 1750.<br> The tune was also printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from<br> Playford's Dancing Master (1986).<br>
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