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"Trip to Kilburn" is also known as "Black and Grey" under which title it was first printed in
The Dancing Master 7th edition (1786) and was retained in all
subsequent editions through the 18th (1728). It also appears in John Walsh's
Compleat Country Dancing Master editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754 and
Johnson's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2 (1742).
"Black and Grey" appears in the 1790 music manuscript collection of Cheapside, London, musician Thomas Hammersley. The alternate title "Trip to Kilburn" is also in common use today for the melody, stemming from its association with a country dance by that name. The melody is not the similarly-titled Northumbrian tune "Black and the Grey". It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master, vol. 2 by The Telemann Society and A Trip to Kilburn by The Baltimore Consort. |