Upon a Summer's Day
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Upon a Summer's Day", also known as “The Garland” or “Gipsie's Round” is an English<br> country dance tune in 6/4 or 6/8 time in D Dorian (Chappell, Raven) or F Minor (Barnes,<br> Sharp). The parts are played AB (Chappell, Raven), AABB (Sharp) or AABBB (Barnes).<br> The air (whose title comes from a ballad) was published by John Playford in the first<br> edition of The English Dancing Master (1651) and was retained under the "Upon a<br> Summer's Day" title through the third edition of 1657, after which it appears as<br> "A Summer's Day". In later editions through the eighth of (1690) it is called<br> "The Garland" after another ballad set to the tune. The air also appears in Playford's<br> Musick’s Delight on the Cithren (1666). Playford's tune is based upon an older one:<br> composer William Byrd set it as<br> "Gipsie's Round".<br> It was printed in Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1 (1859),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1994).<br> It was recorded by The New York Renaissance Band on Country Capers: Music from<br> Playford's The English Dancing Master (2008).<br>
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