Buskin

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Theme code Index	1H535 6423
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Henry Playford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dancing Master (The) 11th Ed.
Tune and/or Page number	284
Year of publication/Date of MS	1701
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BUSKIN. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was printed by Henry Playford in the 11th Edition of the Dancing Master (London, 1701), and in all subsequent editions until the last of the series (the 18th), printed by John Young in 1728. It also appears in the Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, printed in London in 1718, and again in 1731 and 1754. A buskin is a half-boot, which laces closed but is open across the toes. It was an ancient style often associated with soldiers and hunters in Greece and Rome, and also with the stage. Actors in tragic roles in Greek theatre wore buskins, differentiated from comic actors, who wore a thin-soled shoe called a sock.

Printed sources: Barlow (Compleat Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 420, p. 98. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 16.

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S:Playford - Dancing Master (11th edition, 1701)
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