Barn Elms

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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Triple Hornpipe
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	3/2
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Peter Barnes
Book/Manuscript title	Book:English Country Dance Tunes
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS	1989
Artist	Biography:Dave Shepherd & Becky Price
Title of recording	Ashburnham
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Beautiful Jo BEJOCD-36
Year recorded
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BARN ELMS. English, "Old" Hornpipe (3/2 time). G Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. Barn Elms was a Georgian mansion and parkland in the London Borough of Richmond, the meeting place of the Kit-Cat club for many years when it was the home of Jacob Tonson the elder (1655/6–1736), a London bookseller and publisher.

The tune first appears in Walsh's New Country Dancing Master, 2nd book (London, 1710), reprinted in Walsh and Hare's 2nd Book of the Complete Country Dancing Master (London, 1719). It also appears in the 2nd Book of the Dancing Master, vol. 1, printed by John Young in 1713 (heir to the Playford series). It continued to appear in subsequent volumes through the fourth and last, printed in 1728.

Printed source: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1989.

Recorded sources:Beautiful Jo BEJOCD-36, Dave Shepherd & Becky Price - "Ashburnham."

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