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LAMBETH WELLS. English, Country Dance Air (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was printed by Henry Playford in the Dancing Master Part Two (2nd edition) of 1698 [1]. It was retained in the long-running series through the 18th and final edition of 1728, then published in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern. The tune was also published by the Walshes, in The Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1718, and in subsequent editions of 1735 and 1754).
The name Lambeth is an Anglo-Saxon name derived from the word hythe and used for a place where lambs were shipped across a river; over time lamb hythe was reshaped by local tongues into Lambeth. Lambeth Wells was a fashionable spot south-west of London where concerts were occasionally given in past centuries.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 378, p. 89. Watson (A Rolick of Recorders and Other Instruments), 1975; No. 13, p. 16.
Recorded sources:
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