Annotation:Willow Willow (2)
X:1 T:Willow Willow [2] M:6/4 L:1/8 B:Chappell – Old English Popular Music vol. 1 (1859, p. 108) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin E2|A2B2c2 ^G2E2 A A|A3B ^G2A4 c2|c3d B2c4 c d | e2d3 c d2B2 Bc/d/|c2B3 A ^G4 E2|^F3 ^G A2 ^G4 c2| A3B ^G2 A4 c2|A3B ^G2 A4||c2|c3d c2B4e2| c2d2e2 f4e2|d3c d2 e3B c2|AG ^F2 E E4 E2| ^F3^G A2 ^G4 c2|A3B ^G2 A4 c2|A3B ^G2 A4||
WILLOW, WILLOW [2]. English, Ballad Air (6/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The air was re-set by Pelham Humfrey after the English Restoration in Stafford Smith's Musica Antiqua. Chappell (1859) says this setting for the lyrics is written in a form "much in vogue" in mid seventeenth century Italy (consisting of a different melody for each stanza connected by a short refrain passage), and which had travelled to Paris where Chappell believes Humfrey picked it up.
