Playford's great contrbution was to bring together in print both musical notation and instructions for country dances to accompany the tunes. It's success spawned a number of imitators, although it would be more than a century before it occurred to someone to marry musical notations and songs in print. Dancing, which Steele described as an imitation of Nature in its highest excellence, has played an important part in the development of music, in that it compelled attention to Time and Rhythm.
The very origin of the word ballad ballare, Italian, "to dance" suggests that ballads were originally dance pieces, sung by performers or onlookers during the act of dancing. The date usually given for it is from the third edition of Playford in , but while the steps are from Playford, the music given in Playford is a variation on a tune by William Byrd from Many experts point out that our old English tunes were too quick for vocal uses, and hence, were used for dance.
The oldest extant written song in the English language, "Sumer is icumen in" Summer's coming in found in a midth century manuscript, with delicate melodic curves set in polished counterpoint, can be seen to be, in reality, a country dance. Dance tunes are the common origin of both Minstrelsy and Folk songs. Indeed, the later balladeers, with the printing press providing much of their bread and butter, designed their wares to be sung to country dance tunes of such clear pedigree as "Sellenger's Round.
Sir Thomas Elyot, in The Governor , describes the ancient modes of dancing, adding: "And as for the special names of the dances they were taken, as they be now, either of the names of the first inventors, or of the measure and number they do contain; or of the first words of the ditty which the song comprehendeth, whereof the dance was made.
After the Restoration came Henry Purcell , the greatest song-writer England ever produced, and with him arose such excellent musicians as Dr. Blow and Pelham Humfreys. Much of his instrumental music was published by his widow in , as "A Collection of Ayres, Compos'd for the Theatre, and upon Other Occasions. In , Thomas Percy published his "Reliques," a collection of English ballad texts.
Then, in , Ritson produced his exhaustive collection of music and lyrics, a portion of which we have on these pages. Love Songs. Drinking Songs. Miscellaneous Songs.
The Music of George Washington's Time. The Dancing Assemblies of Philadelphia. English Country Dancing. Songs of the Revolutionary War. Clio and Euterpe another 18th century songbook.
Colonial Music Institute. The songs are presented in greater detail on the linked pages. Midi files are included for some songs. Apel, Willi. Harvard Dictionary of Music.
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I believe the tunes are all in the public domain. But praised be the Lord! The snare is broken, and we are escaped! But blessed be the Lord!
Hark, hark, hear the adjuration, Cursed be the man that keepeth back his sword! My bowels! Songwriters hall of fame - william billings Sheet Music by William Billings American Revolution, Billings adapts many of his hymns as war songs with new lyrics.
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