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|f_track=Tom Brigg's Jig.mp3
|f_track=Trenchmore.mp3
|f_pdf=Tom Brigg's Jig.pdf
|f_pdf=Trenchmore.pdf
|f_artwork=Briggs' banjo instructor.jpg
|f_artwork=Circle_of_William_Scrots_Edward_VI_of_England.jpg
|f_tune_name=Tom Briggs' Jig
|f_tune_name=Trenchmore
|f_track_title=Tom Briggs' Jig
|f_track_title=Trenchmore
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|f_played_by=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCULm3jROXEj83hMZCFllrcw Jordi Savall]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jacob-heringman Jacob Heringman]
|f_notes= Briggs' banjo instructor.
|f_notes= Portrait of Edward VI of England, seated, wearing a gown lined in fur (ermine or lynx) over a crimson doublet with the collar of the Order of the Garter and holding a Bible.
|f_caption=Briggs' banjo instructor (music) : containing the elementary principles of music, together with examples and lessons, ... to which is added a choice collection of pieces, numbering over fifty popular dances, polkas, melodies, &c. &c., many of which have never before been published. Composed and arranged expressly for this work.
|f_caption=The first record of the tune and dance is in an account of the Christmas festivities at the court of Edward VI of England in 1551, where a list of expenses for the year’s Lord of Misrule (the character responsible for overseeing the celebrations) included, for his dancers, the cost of thre garments of sarsenett with iij payre of sloppes of owde store, for them that daunsed trenchemore.
|f_source=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb1J11feTbc Youtube]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jacob-heringman/trenchmore Soundcloud]  
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|f_article=[[Tom Briggs' Jig | '''Tom Briggs' Jig''']]
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Tom Briggs (c. 1824/25-1854) learned to play the banjo from one of the first blackface minstrel musicians, Bill Whitlock. He played with Wood's Minstrels and performed in England in 1849.  
The dance featured a number of ‘tricks’ or ‘capers’ and seems to have been a large, boisterous activity. Thomas Deloney, writing in his work '''The Gentle Craft, Part II''' (London, c. 1598), describes a character who “like one dauncing the trench more he stampt up and downe the yard, holding his lips in his hands.


He traveled to California with E.P. Christy's Minstrels in the mid-1850's, via the Gulf of Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama, to tour the gold camps and to perform in San Francisco. However, soon after opening night in that city he succumbed to typhoid fever or tuberculosis contracted in Panama. His banjo tutor, '''Briggs' Banjo Instructor''' (Oliver Ditson, Boston 1855) was completed by his friend, minstrel James Buckley.  
It was mentioned in a 1564 morality play by William Bulleyn, where a minstrel was described as "dancing Trenchmore”; William Sampson’s '''The Vow Breaker''' (1636) gives: “We had a Wedding to day and the young fry tickle Trench-more.


Tom Briggs, according to Edward Le Roy Rices’ '''Monarchs of Minstrelsy''' (New York, 1911) was:  
Some time after its introduction the dance was sufficiently common as to attract allusion in both literature and common usage—any unrestrained, wild activity was likely to provoke comparison with ‘dancing Trenchmore’, and, on a more sinister note, one recorded letter threatens that a man will be made to talk by being suspended so that his feet barely touch the ground, so that he will ‘dance Trenchmore’ in his agony (see Donnolly).
 
Trenchmore is given by John Playford as the title of a dance, however, as Dean-Smith & Nicol point out:  
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''...one of the earliest and greatest banjo performers in minstrelsy; when he first went''  
''The word is used elsewhere as the name for a kind of dance with an under-and-over movement''  
''on the stage, in the early 40’s, he travelled under the name of Fluter. He invented the''  
''(like 'Grimstock' or the roll-figure of certain sword-dances) or danced under and over the furniture''  
''banjo thimble in 1848 [used for rapid tremolo picking], and it came into general use three''
''through the hall and kitchen; the word is often used in the literature of the period:--"Capering a''  
''years later. He was the first to do the bell chimes  [i.e. harmonics] , and gave imitations''
''morrisca or trenchmore": "Like one dancing the trenchmore he stampt up and down, holding his hips in''  
''of a horserace on the banjo. He played successful engagements in the 40’s and 50’s with''  
''his hands," "Among a number of these contrey dances I did light on such a Galliard as had a tricke''  
''Wood’s Minstrels, likewise Buckley’s Serenaders.  September 20 1854, he left New York''  
''(caper) above trenchmore", while 'The West-country Jigg' or 'A trenchmore galliard' to the tune''  
''with E.P. Christy’s Minstrels to play an engagement in San Francisco; he contracted an''  
''of 'Up with Aley' in the Roxburgh Ballads described a country gathering like "Come Lasses and lads" as''  
''illness on the way, and was unable to play. Tom Briggs died in San Francisco October 23, ''
''the wedding of the Lasses of Trenchmore Lee''<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. 226. </ref>. 
''1854; aged 30 years.'' (p. 46)
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Revision as of 14:37, 4 November 2023



The first record of the tune and dance is in an account of the Christmas festivities at the court of Edward VI of England in 1551, where a list of expenses for the year’s Lord of Misrule (the character responsible for overseeing the celebrations) included, for his dancers, the cost of thre garments of sarsenett with iij payre of sloppes of owde store, for them that daunsed trenchemore.
Trenchmore

Played by: Jacob Heringman
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Portrait of Edward VI of England, seated, wearing a gown lined in fur (ermine or lynx) over a crimson doublet with the collar of the Order of the Garter and holding a Bible.

Trenchmore

The dance featured a number of ‘tricks’ or ‘capers’ and seems to have been a large, boisterous activity. Thomas Deloney, writing in his work The Gentle Craft, Part II (London, c. 1598), describes a character who “like one dauncing the trench more he stampt up and downe the yard, holding his lips in his hands.”

It was mentioned in a 1564 morality play by William Bulleyn, where a minstrel was described as "dancing Trenchmore”; William Sampson’s The Vow Breaker (1636) gives: “We had a Wedding to day and the young fry tickle Trench-more.”

Some time after its introduction the dance was sufficiently common as to attract allusion in both literature and common usage—any unrestrained, wild activity was likely to provoke comparison with ‘dancing Trenchmore’, and, on a more sinister note, one recorded letter threatens that a man will be made to talk by being suspended so that his feet barely touch the ground, so that he will ‘dance Trenchmore’ in his agony (see Donnolly).

Trenchmore is given by John Playford as the title of a dance, however, as Dean-Smith & Nicol point out:

The word is used elsewhere as the name for a kind of dance with an under-and-over movement (like 'Grimstock' or the roll-figure of certain sword-dances) or danced under and over the furniture through the hall and kitchen; the word is often used in the literature of the period:--"Capering a morrisca or trenchmore": "Like one dancing the trenchmore he stampt up and down, holding his hips in his hands," "Among a number of these contrey dances I did light on such a Galliard as had a tricke (caper) above trenchmore", while 'The West-country Jigg' or 'A trenchmore galliard' to the tune of 'Up with Aley' in the Roxburgh Ballads described a country gathering like "Come Lasses and lads" as the wedding of the Lasses of Trenchmore Lee[1].



...more at: Trenchmore - full Score(s) and Annotations



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  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. 226.