Annotation:Tunbridge Beauties
X:1 T:Tunbridge Beauties M:C| L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Young – Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition (1710, p. 62) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gmin g4 d3e|dcBA G2A2|B3B c2d2|e2 dc d2 =e^f| g4 d3e|dcBA G2A2|B2 (Bc/d/) (cB)(AG)|G8:| |:b4 f3g|fedc B2d2|e4 c3d|cBAG F2A2| B2BG c2d2|e2 dc d2 g^f|g2 ga a3g|g8:|]
TUNBRIDGE BEAUTIES. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody, with directions for a country dance, was printed in London by John Young in all four editions of his Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1710-1728). It was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, editions of 1719 and 1754, and in his New Country Dancing Master, 2d Book (1710). Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, came into being as a spa in the Restoration and enjoyed its heyday as a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s under Beau Nash when the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted significant numbers of visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town remained fashionable.