Annotation:Spring Garden (2)
X: 1 T:Spring Garden [2]. (p)1657.PLFD1.132 M:6/4 L:1/4 Q:3/4=100 B:Playford, Dancing Master,3rd Ed.,1657 O:England;London H:1657. Z:Chris Partington <www.cpartington.plus> K:Am A2 A c2 c|d>eda3|A3 c3|d>ed ^c A2:| |:f2 f g>fe|f a2 g2 e|f2 f g>fe|f a2 g2 e| fga g>fe|ded fga| A3 c3|d>ed ^cA2:|
SPRING GARDEN [2]. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Minor/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Sharp): ABBB (Barnes). The melody with directions for a country dance was first published by John Playford in his Dancing Master, 3rd editor (1657). It was retained in the remainder of the edition of the long-running Dancing Master series, through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns). It was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754, and in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).