Annotation:Wigmore’s Galliard

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WIGMORE'S GALLIARD. AKA – “Collin's Conceit.” English, Country Dance Tune (3/2 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This late sixteenth century air appears in William Ballet's Lute Book (c. 1610). Chappell (1859) finds reference to the tune in Middleton's Your Five Gallants where Jack says:

This will make my master leap out of bed for joy,
and dance 'Wigmore's Galliard' about his chamber!

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 1), 1859; p. 250.

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