Woodycock
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Also known as "Whirligig". The melody was printed in Playford’s<br> The Dancing Master (1651) and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book<br> where it is set by Giles Farnaby. Bayard (in his article<br> “Miscellany of Tune Notes”) says it was a Welsh harp and perhaps<br> dance tune, known in England since the 16th century by its<br> appearance in Fitzwilliam. Chappell (1859) says it was the<br> “delight of the men of Dovey” although it is “an inferior copy of<br> ‘Greensleeves’”. Five 17th century Dutch sets appear, under the<br> title “Wooddicock”, in van Duyse Oude Nederl, Lied, II (1905)<br> and a set appears in Adriaen Valerius’ Nederlandtsche<br> Gedenck-Clanck (1626) under the title “Engels Woddecot”, confirming<br> the tune’s popularity in England. Bayard concludes from a<br> comparison of these variants that the Welsh forms are examples of<br> secondary lengthening and are borrowings from the English or Dutch traditions.<br> It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master<br> by The Telemann Society and Country Capers by The<br> New York Renaissance Band.<br>
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