Annotation:Lusty Gallant

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LUSTY GALLANT. AKA and see "Captain Ward." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 or 4/4 time). E Minor (Raven): D Dorian (Chappell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chappell): AABB (Raven). The air appears in William Ballet's Lute Book, and although Chappell (1859) does not find any ballad by that name, it was mentioned as a dance tune as early as 1577, and Chappell believes it to have been written on or before the year 1566. It was an immensely popular tune, he says, and a great many ballads were written to it. A century later it was still in currency and appeared in Playford's Dancing Master. Raven's version is a 6/8 country dance version and differs from the duple time lute tune printed by Chappell.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 1, 1859; p. 234. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 8.

Recorded sources: Maggie's Music MMCD216, Hesperus - "Early American Roots" (1997).

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