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'''BATH MEDLEY.''' AKA and see "Humours of the Bath," "The Spring's a-Coming." English, Irish; Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. O'Farrell (c. 1806) gives its provenance as "Irish," perhaps because of its appearance in Neal's A Choice Collection of Country Dances, printed in Dublin in c. 1726. However, it has also been printed in Scottish collections and is sometimes recorded as originating in that country. English printings seem to predate all, however. Some of the earliest appearances of the tune are in Watt's Musical Miscellany (vol. 1, 1729), and the ballad operas The Country Wedding (1729), The Wedding (1729), Charles Coffey's The Devil to Pay, or the Wives Metamorphos'd (1731) and Anthony Aston's Fools Opera (1731). It appears in several musician's commonplace books on both sides of the Atlantic from the mid-18th century on. The title may have derived from a song by Anthony Aston entitled "The Pleasures of the Bath," one version of which was published in 1721. Bruce Olson finds evidence of a song by Aston called "The Bath Medley" published on single sheets dating from 1715, which begins: "The spring's a coming," often an alternate title. Aston, who died in 1731, was an actor and dramatist who came to the stage after attempting law and other professions with little success. His writing for the stage, however, met with some success in the early 18th century, especially Love in a Hurry (performed in Dublin, c. 1709), and the opera Pastora, or the Coy Shepherdess (1712). Aston toured the English provinces with his family (and even visited America in 1702), producing his own plays or medleys from various plays fitted together with songs and dialogues of his own. Wiley Housewright of Florida State University, in his article "Music and Change in Florida" records:  
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Anthony Aston, alias Mat Medley, a notable English musician, came to join English Governor James Moore of South Carolina in his pillage of St. Augustine in 1702. He remained in the ancient city for fifty-four days, returned to Charleston, then joined opera and theatrical companies in New York and Boston. He sang bass, danced, and acted. He returned to England, where he wrote The Fool's Opera; or the Taste of an Age. He wrote a drama about Florida, but the script has never been found. Aston achieved renown in England as a songwriter for singers who performed on the leading stages of London. In 1743 he advertised his collection of "Negro Songs" at Goodman's Fields. It is a collection of tunes that he probably heard in Florida and South Carolina. He may have heard some of them in Jamaica or the Bahamas, where he visited in his early days. These songs, along with those of Charles Dibdin, were forerunners of the American Minstrel show songs, which would appear more than a hundred years later.
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Elsewhere it is recorded that Aston played just enough performances in Charleston and New York to earn his passage back home.
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The title honors Bath, England, an ancient town popular as a resort in the early-to-mid 18th century. The Roman name for Bath was Aquae Sulis, the 'waters of Sulis' (Sulis was a Celtic goddess with affinities to the Roman Minerva), referring to the hot springs found there, but when the English conquered the territory they called it simply 'the baths,' later simply Bath (Matthews, 1972). For many years it was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and its abbey was chosen by Dunstan as the site of the first major coronation in 973 when Edgar was crowned King of the English with his queen Elfrida. Bath regained notoriety as a spa in the 18th century when much of the town center was rebuilt. It received patronage from George III and his queen, Charlotte, and after, George IV. The Assembly Rooms at Bath, part of the spa, were built in the 1740's and were in the form of a long, rectangular space to accommodate country dancing. Allison Thompson, in her forward to an excerpt on fashionable dancing from Tobias Smollet's '''The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker''' (1769), explains:
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<blockquote>Tobias Smollet (1721-1771) was a practicing physician but found the time to write a number of popular novels, including '''Roderick Random''' (1748) and '''Peregrine Pickle''' (1751). His epistolary novel, '''The
Expedition of Humphrey Clinker,''' appeared in 1771 and describes Bath in its early phase of popularity as a social hot spot of eighteenth century England. A sleepy, run-down spa frequented only by valetudinarians in the early part of the century, it had been brought to prominence by Richard 'Beau' Nash (1674-1762), who arrived in Bath in 1705. There he took over the management of the Assembly Rooms and drew up a strict code of etiquette and dress, becoming the unquestioned autocrat of fashionable society. Assemblies began at six p.m. with minuets. These ran until eight o'clock, and were followed by country dances from eight until tea was announced at nine. More country dances followed the tea and, under Beau Nash's autocratic rule, dances in the Rooms concluded at eleven sharp-even if the musicians were in the middle of a tune. Nash's popularity waned after 1745, but his influence lingered throughout the century.</blockquote>  
(Allison Thompson, '''Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918:''' Selections, page 103. 1998)
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''Printed source:'' Aird ('''Selection of English, Irish, Scotch and Foreign Airs,''' vol. 1), 1782; pg. 69. Barnes ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1989. Breathnach ('''CRÉ V'''), 1999; No. 22, pg. 13 (untitled jig). O'Farrell ('''Pocket Companion''', vol. II), c. 1806; pg. 128.
 
 
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 Theme code Index    1765 657L2
 Also known as    Humors of the Bath, In Paddy's Love, Spring's a-Coming (The), Trip to Bath (2), Wedding Shoes
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England, Ireland
 Genre/Style    English, Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:John Walsh
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Complete Country Dancing-Master Volume the Fourth
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 22
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1740
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Bath Medley: Annotations

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X:2 T:Bath Medley, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign B:Airs, vol. 1 (1782, No. 29, p. 11) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|G2g fed|efg dBG|ecA dBG|F2G AFD| G2g fed|efg dBG|ecA dBG|DEF G2:| |:g|f2g afd|e2f g3|B2c dBG|F2G AFD| G2g fed|efg dBG|ecA dBG|DEF G2:|]


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