Zephyrs and Flora

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Theme code Index	3135 1H1H1H2H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	F
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
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	1986
Artist	Biography:Dudley Laufman
Title of recording	Swinging on a Gate
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Front Hall Records 03
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

ZEPHYRS AND FLORA. English, New England; Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in the Dancing Master, vol. II, 3rd and 4th editions, published in London in 1718 and 1728, respectively. At that time the long-running Dancing Master series was being published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern. It also appears in Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Dancing Master (London, 1719). Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and the wife of Zephyr--the West wind of Springtime. The allegorical pair was the subject of several painting, ballet and stage works.

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Johnson (Twenty Eight Country Dances as Done at the New Boston Fair), vol. 8, 1988; p. 10.

Recorded source: Front Hall Records 03, Dudley Laufman, "Swinging on a Gate."

X: 1
T: Zephyrs and Flora
O: 1728
M: 2/2
L: 1/8
K: F
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