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|f_annotation='''GREENWOOD [1]'''. AKA and see ""[[Huntsman (The)]]," "[[Will You go to the Woods so Wild?]]," [[Woods so Wild (The)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 or 6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Published by John Playford in his '''English Dancing Master''' (London, 1651) and retained in subsequent editions through the 8th, published in 1690. With the 5th edition of 1675 the alternate title "Huntsman" was added. Not the Irish "[[Green Wood]]" published by Joyce. It is known that the melody was a great favorite in Elizabethan times (Ian Payne, '''The Almain in Britain'''), along with others found in Playford; "[[Heart's Ease (1)]]," "[[Daphne]]" and "[[Woodicock]]." The original tune was called "Shall I goewalk the woods so wilde" ("[[Woods so Wild (The)]]") and was "supposed to be a freeman's song of Henry VIII's time, and so appears in [the song collection] '''Pammelia''' (1609) against '[[Dargason]]' as a catch"<ref>Margaret Dean-Smith & E.J. Nicol, “The Dancing Master: 1651-1728: Part III. “Our Country Dances.” Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 4, No. 6 (Dec., 1945), p. 224. </ref> | |||
|f_printed_sources=Barlow ('''Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master'''), 1985; No. 31, p. 23. Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; pp. 34 & 38 (the latter is a facsimile copy of the Playford original). Sharp ('''Country Dance Tunes'''), 1909; p. 45. | |||
'''GREENWOOD'''. AKA and see "[[ | |f_recorded_sources=Amon Ra CDSAR 28, The Broadside Band – “John Playford’s Popular Tunes” (recorded 1952-1961). Saydisc CDSDL449, The Broadside Band - "Traditional Dance Music of Britain & Ireland" (2018). | ||
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GREENWOOD [1]. AKA and see ""Huntsman (The)," "Will You go to the Woods so Wild?," Woods so Wild (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 or 6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Published by John Playford in his English Dancing Master (London, 1651) and retained in subsequent editions through the 8th, published in 1690. With the 5th edition of 1675 the alternate title "Huntsman" was added. Not the Irish "Green Wood" published by Joyce. It is known that the melody was a great favorite in Elizabethan times (Ian Payne, The Almain in Britain), along with others found in Playford; "Heart's Ease (1)," "Daphne" and "Woodicock." The original tune was called "Shall I goewalk the woods so wilde" ("Woods so Wild (The)") and was "supposed to be a freeman's song of Henry VIII's time, and so appears in [the song collection] Pammelia (1609) against 'Dargason' as a catch"[1]
- ↑ Margaret Dean-Smith & E.J. Nicol, “The Dancing Master: 1651-1728: Part III. “Our Country Dances.” Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 4, No. 6 (Dec., 1945), p. 224.