Annotation:Woods so Wild (The)

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X:1 T:Shall I go Walk in the Woods so Wild? M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air B:Chappel - Popular Music of the Olden Time (1858) K:Gmin BBB B2F|G2F D3|EFG A2G|c2B (AG)F| B2B B2F|G2F D2B|A2G F2D|E2C C3||


WOODS SO WILD, THE. AKA - "Woods so Wilde (The)AKA and see "Greenwood," "Huntsman (The)." English, Air (3/4 time). G Mixolydian or G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The air was set twice by the English composer William Byrd and Chappell (1859) gives an alternate ending by another famous composer, Orlando Gibbons. Apparently there were words written to it that have not survived. It appears in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (1610-1625), Lady Neville's Virginal Book, William Ballet's Lute Book, Pammelia (1609), and Playford's English Dancing Master (1650).

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1), 1859; p. 119.

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