Annotation:Chirping of the Lark (The)
X: 1 T:Chirping Of The Lark. (p)1651.PLFD1.015, The T:Bonny Kate. (p)1651.PLFD1.015 M:4/4 L:1/4 Q:1/2=100 S:Playford, Dancing Master,1st Ed.,1651. O:England;London N:The A strain is very much the same as the A strain of Bonny Kate from N:the Harrison & Wall Collection. H:1651. Z:Chris Partington. K:F f2ed/e/|fFFd|cBAG|AFF2:| |:f>fee|d/f/e/d/^cA|B/c/d^c/d/e|d2d2:|
CHIRPING OF THE LARK, THE. AKA and see "Muscadin," "Kemp's Morris." English, Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in Henry Playford's English Dancing Master (1651) and his Introduction, and was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series through the 8th edition of 1690 (there is also a companion tune, of sorts, called "The Chirping of the Nightingale"). It also appears in Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck (1628), and, as "Muscadin", in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The tune combines a variant of bars 1-4 of "Nobody's Jig" with four bars of unrelated music. The tune begins in the key of 'F' Major, but changes key to 'A' Minor in the second strain.
