Annotation:Quodling’s Delight

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QUODLING'S DELIGHT. AKA and see "Goddesses (1)," "Oak and Ash (The)," "I Would I were in My Own Country." English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Sir John Hawkin's transcriptions, and Playford's Dancing Master of 1650 (where it appears as "Goddesses"). Walker (History of Music in England, 1924) says the “Quodling” title appeared first, to this “jovial Elizabethan dance-melody,” and that “Goddesses” appeared in the 17th century, followed by an 18th century permutation of the tune into the well-known “The Oak and the Ash.” Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 1, 1859; p. 276.

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