The Twenty-Ninth of May
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Twenty-Ninth of May", also known as "All Things Bright and Beautiful",<br> "May Hill", "The Jovial Crew", "The Jovial Beggars" or "Restoration of King<br> Charles" is an English Morris and country dance tune in cut or 4/4 time and<br> D Major (Barnes, Karpeles, Kidson, Raven, Sharp)or G Major (Bacon, Callaghan,<br> Mallinson). The parts are played AB (Sharp), AAB (Barnes, Karpeles, Kidson, Raven),<br> AABA (Bacon) or AABB, x4 (Callaghan, Mallinson).<br> The air was published in Playford's Dancing Master, 7th edition (1686) and all<br> later editions, sometimes even appearing twice, with different names (such as<br> "The Jovial Beggars"). It also appears in Playford’s Apollo’s Banquet.<br> The title date refers to the day Charles II landed in England in the year 1660<br> to be returned to the crown. An act of Parliament later that same year decreed<br> the date should be a day of thanksgiving, to “be celebrated in every church and<br> chapel in England and the dominions thereof”. It was observed until 1859. The date<br> happened to be the king’s birthday as well as his return day.<br> The morris dance version was collected from the village of Headington, Oxfordshire,<br> in England's Cotswolds.<br> The Anglican church has long had a hymn set to the tune known as "All Things<br> Bright and Beautiful".<br> It was printed in Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974),<br> Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Callaghan's Hardcore English (2007),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2 (1859),<br> Elias Howe's Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882),<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Kidson's Old English Country Dances (1890),<br> Mallinson's Mally’s Cotswold Morris Book (1988),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br>
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