Annotation:Buskin

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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 18th and last of the series, printed by John Young in 1728. It also appears in the Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, printed in London in 1718, and reissued 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.

Source for notated version:

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. Walsh (Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth), London, 1740; No. 149.

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