Valentine's Day
Notation:
Standard Notation
ABC Notation
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
traditional
PDF Files:
--- choose file type ---
Standard Notation
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
Tune Sheet
English country dance
Play
MIDI
No audio
available
Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Valentine's Day", also known as "The Maid in the Moon" is an English country dance tune in<br> 6/8 time and G Major. The tune dates to John Playford’s (1623-1687) 4th edition of his<br> Dancing Master (1670), where it appears under the title "The Maid in the Moon" with "Valentine's<br> Day" given as an alternate title. It was retained in the Dancing Master series through the 18th and<br> final edition of 1728. However, beginning with the 6th edition of 1679 the primary title was<br> "Valentine's Day" and in the 7th and 8th editions both "Valentine's Day" and "The Maid in the Moon"<br> (using the same tune) were printed with different dance figures; "Maid" in a three-couple round<br> dance, while "Valentine's" is a longways dance. The Valentine's Day customs had been discouraged<br> by Commonwealth England, as were numerous folk and rural observances but found renewed vigor in<br> Restoration times. <br> London publisher John Walsh picked up the tune and country dance for his Compleat Country Dancing<br> Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754. The dance “Valentine’s Day” is also recorded in the 1688<br> manuscript record of French Court dancing master André Lorin (now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in<br> Paris), who visited England c. 1685 to collect English country dances in response to the growing<br> interest stimulated by Madame la Dauphine. Later it was printed by Feuillet in 1700 in his treatise<br> Choregraphie. Feuillet published subsequent editions of his work as the popularity of English<br> country dancing took off on the Continent, several tunes were taken from The Dancing Master. <br> It was printed it Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985),<br> Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes (1986) Christian's A Playford Assembly (2015) Walsh's<br> Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br>
Click
here
for a full page view.