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'''HAMSTEAD HEATH.''' AKA - "Hampstead Heath." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in all four editions of London publisher John Young's '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1710-1728), and in all three editions of the Walshes' '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1719, 1735, 1749), and in Walsh & Randall's '''New Country Dancing Master, 2nd Book''' (1710). Curiously, the same melody appears again in the Walsh volumes as "[[Hampstead Manour]]." Playford gives a different melody as "Hampstead Heath" in his '''Apollo's Banquet''' of 1670. | '''HAMSTEAD HEATH.''' AKA - "Hampstead Heath." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in all four editions of London publisher John Young's '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1710-1728), and in all three editions of the Walshes' '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1719, 1735, 1749), and in Walsh & Randall's '''New Country Dancing Master, 2nd Book''' (1710). Curiously, the same melody appears again in the Walsh volumes as "[[Hampstead Manour]]." Playford gives a different melody as "Hampstead Heath" in his '''Apollo's Banquet''' of 1670. | ||
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Hampstead Heath [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead_Heath] is an ancient park in London, located on some of the highest territory in the city. | |||
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HAMSTEAD HEATH. AKA - "Hampstead Heath." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728), and in all three editions of the Walshes' Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719, 1735, 1749), and in Walsh & Randall's New Country Dancing Master, 2nd Book (1710). Curiously, the same melody appears again in the Walsh volumes as "Hampstead Manour." Playford gives a different melody as "Hampstead Heath" in his Apollo's Banquet of 1670.
Hampstead Heath [1] is an ancient park in London, located on some of the highest territory in the city.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master), 1st edition, 1710; p. 57.
Recorded sources:
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