Blackheath

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Theme code Index	3b551H 5551
Also known as	Black Heath
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AA'BC
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Henry Playford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dancing Master 11th Edition
Tune and/or Page number	303
Year of publication/Date of MS	1701
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BLACKHEATH. AKA – "Black Heath." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BC. The melody was new to the 11th edition of Henry Playford's Dancing Master (London, 1701). It also appeared in John Young's editions of The Dancing Master (London, 1709, 1713) and in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1718). The name probably refers to the Blackheath area, now in London, straddling the boundary of Lewisham and Greenwich. In Playford's day it was a desolate place, with poor soil and thus not cultivated. It was a favourite haunt of highwaymen in the 17th century, who preyed upon coaches traelling from the city on the Dover Road to north Kent and the Channel ports.

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1986. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 11.

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T:Black Heath
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L:1/8
S:Playford - Dancing Master (11th edition, 1701)
K:Gmin
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