Annotation:St. Martin's-Lane
X: 1 T: St. Martin's-Lane P: Longways for as many as will %R: march, reel B: "The Dancing-Master: Containing Directions and Tunes for Dancing" printed by W. Pearson for John Walsh, London ca. 1709 S: 7: DMDfD http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=89751228 p.197 "S 3" Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: Repeat added to satisfy the "first Strain played twice" instruction. M: C| L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/JohnWalsh/St_Martins-Lane.abc K: Gm % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bc |\ d2 d2 d2 d2 | e4 c4 | d2 (cB) A2 d2 | B2 G2 G2 Bc |d2 d2 d2 d2 | e4 c4 | d4 cB (AB) (AG) | G6 :|ef |g2 g2 g2 d2 | e4 c4 | f2 f2 fg fe | d6 ef | g2 G2 G2 g2 | f2 F2 F2 fe | d2 e2 c3 B | B6 de |f2 f2 f2 f2 | ^f2 f2 f2 f2 |g2 g2 (g3 f/g/) | a2 a2 a2 a2 |b2 b^f g2 a2 | ^f6 ga | b2 B2 B2 b2 | a2 A2 A2 a2 |g2 G2 G2 g2 | ^f2 g2 g3 ^f | g6 |] % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% The 1. man cast off below the 2. man, then turn the 3. wo. and cast up into his own place; then the 1 wo. cast off %% below the 2. wo. then turn the 3. man and cast up into her own place. This to the first Strain played twice. %% Lead down the 2. cu. then all hands a-breast with the 3. cu. and go the Figure through, then cast up all four hands %% a-breast with the 2. cu. then lead up and go the Figure through the 2. cu. then meet in the 2. cu. place and turn; the %% others do the like. %% [DMDfD] %%endtext %%sep 1 8 500
ST. MARTIN'S LANE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "St. Martin's Lane" was first published by in 1696 by Henry Playford in the Second Part of the Dancing Master (Supplement to the 9th edition of the Dancing Master). It was subsequently retained in every edition of the long-running Dancing Master series of editions through the 18th and final edition of 1728, then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern. "St. Martin's Lane" was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh inThe Compleat Country Dancing Master'''''', editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754.
