Annotation:Belsize
X: 1 T:Belsize. PFD3.075 W:Longways for as many as will. L:1/4 B:Playford, Dancing Master Vol 3, 2nd Ed, c1726 Z:village music project Mike Hicken 2015 N: * These notes are shown as minims in the original. Q:3/4=40 M:3/4 K:G G2A|Bcd|dcB|A2B|c e/c/ A/c/|B d/B/ G/B/|c e/c/ A/c/|B d/B/ G/B/|AGF|"*" G3|| dgf|gab|agf|e2f|g b/g/e/g/|f a/f/d/f/|g b/g/e/g/|f a/f/d/f/| ed^c|d3|dg2|c e/c/A/c/|B d/B/G/B/|AD2|G2A|B/A/ B/c/ d|G2A|B/A/ B/c/ d|eA2 "*"G3 |] W: W: Note: Each Strain twice. W: W: The first Man lead his Partner by the Right-hand [Minuet Step.] into the 2d. Cu. place, then turn W: Partners .| Then first Wo. casting off, leads her Partner round, in the 3d. Cu. place and turns W: him :| The first Cu. cast up again one Cu. then Ballance and turn Partners; then cast up to the top W: and Ballance and turn Partners .| Then cross over one Cu. and Ballance, and lead thro' the bottom, W: and cast up into the 2d. Cu. place; then Ballance again and turn single, and lead thro' the first Cu. W: and cast down, into their places, and turn Partners :|
BELSIZE. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody "Belsize", along with figures for an accompanying country dance, were printed by London music publisher John Young in the Third Volume of the Dancing Master, 2nd edition (c. 1726), and subsequently by rival publisher John Walsh in hisThe New Country Dancing Master. . . 3d. Book (1728, p. 92) and in hisThe Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master'''' (1735, p. 164).
