Annotation:Saraband (1) (The)

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X: 1 T:Saraband [1], The M:6/8 L:1/8 K:G afa ggg|fdf e2A|cde fga|gaf g2f| afa ggg|fdf e2A|cde fga|gaf g2f|| ccc c>BA|agf e2A|cde fga|g a/g/f/g e2 d| ccc c>BA|agf e2A|cde fga|g a/g/f/g e2d||

SARABAND [1], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody with directions for a county dance was first published in London by John Playford in his English Dancing Master (1651, p. 17). It was retained in the next few editions of the Dancing Master, but was deleted after the third edition of 1665. Playford published a number of different 'Sarabands' in his various music collections and tutors, as the vogue for the slow, stately, triple time Spanish dance was still in fashion after the court of Charles II, where it evolved from the assembly room to the theatre stage.

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Printed sources : - Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master), 1985; No. 87, p.34. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 38.

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