The Spanish Gipsy
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Spanish Gipsy", also known as "The Fairy Queen" and "Come Follow Me" is an English country<br> dance in 6/4 time and D Major.<br> "The Spanish Gypsy” appears in John Playford's Dancing Master, 1st edition (1651, as “Spanish<br> Jeepsie”) and in all subsequent editions through the final 18th (1728), Playford’s<br> Musick's Delight on the Cithren (1666), The Musical Miscellany (1729), Walsh's Dancing Master<br> (as "Fairy Queen") and several ballad operas, such as The Bay's Opera (1727), and The Fashionable<br> Lady (1730) (where is appears as the tune for the song "Come, follow, follow me").<br> Chappell (1859) states the title is from a ballad appearing in a play by Middleton and Rowley,<br> called "The Spanish Gipsie" (1623). It became better known as "Fairy Queen" and "Come, follow,<br> follow me" from other ballads written to the air. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, in their 2007 book Thomas Middleton and Early<br> Modern Textual Culture convincingly argue that Playford’s air did not originally<br> accompany the “Come follow your leader” song, and that it in fact did not accompany any song<br> in the play. Rather it was a melody that accompanied a dance without singing that occurs in<br> scene 5.3 when four couples are on stage, the last dance of the work.<br> It was printed in Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), Barlow's The Complete<br> Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master (1985), Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden<br> Time, vol. 1 (1859) and Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984).<br>
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