Annotation:Bartlett-House

Back to Bartlett-House

---

BARTLETT-HOUSE. English, Country Dance Tune and Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The longways dance and tune were printed by dancing master Thomas Bray, whose book is the earliest surviving instance of bass added to a melody line. Graham Christian (2015) finds that the Bartlett Buildings were built be Thomas Bartlett in 1615, in Hoburn. It was a fashionable address for many years, close by Lincoln's Inn Fields Theater, where Bray danced and choreographed for the United Company. Christian suggests Bartlett-House had "personal meaning" to Bray and his friends.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Christian (A Playford Assembly), 2015; p. 7. Cruickshank (The Lover's Luck: Twenty Country Dances by Thomas Bray, 1699), 2001. Helwig (Thomas Bray's Country Dances), 1988; p. 34.

Recorded sources:

---