Playford dance tunes with chord symbols (200 tunes)

Description

Playford dance tunes with chord symbols

This volume of the Playford dance tunes with chord symbols contains the 200 most popular tunes supplied with chord symbols, which are jazz musics equivalent to figured bass.  The melodies can be played on or accompanied by any chordal instrument (keyboard, guitar.etc.)

This Collection

These dance tunes come from the various editions of John Playford’s The Dancing Master, which appeared in 18 editions between 1651 and 1725, with the majority coming from the earlier books. The letter B after each title refers to the numbering in Jeremy Barlow’s definitive complete edition, published by Faber Music, London.

How this collection came about

After publishing two books of such tunes harmonised in four parts (Playford Dances, Volume 1: 68 dances ↣ and Playford Dances, Volume 2: 82 dances ↣ ), it was suggested that a book of the tunes on their own, but with chord symbols, would also be useful and fun.

Chord symbols for the Playford dance tunes

The choice of chords was obviously subjective, except for the few cases where a tune had clearly evolved over one of the standard ground basses such as passamezzo antico.  Users of this book should feel absolutely free to harmonise the tunes in their own way.  If using plucked instruments such as lute or guitar, players may wish in some cases to change chords less frequently than indicated.

Titles (all 200 of the Playford dance tunes)

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1. All in a Garden Green
2. Argiers or The Wedding Night
3. Aye Me or The Symphony
4. The Bath
5. The Beggar Boy
6. Boatman
7. Bobbing Joe
8. Cast a Bell
9. Chestnut or Dove’s Vagary
10. The Chirping of the Lark
11. The Chirping of the Nightingale
12. Confess His Tune
13. The Country Coll
14. Cuckolds All in a Row
15. Daphne
16. Dissembling Love
17. Drive the Cold Winter Away
18. The Friar and the Nun
19. Goddesses
20. Gathering Peascods
21. The Glory of the West
22. Mad Tom or Gray’s Inn Mask
23. Greenwood
24. Grimstock
25. Half Hannikin
26. Have at Thy Coat, Old Woman
27. The Merry Wassail
28. Heart’s Ease
29. Hit and Miss
30. Hyde Park
31. Irish Trot
32. Jenny Pluck Pears
33. Kemp’s Jig
34. Kettle Drum
35. Lavena
36. Lord of Carnarvon’s Jig
37. Lull Me Beoyond Thee
38. Madge on a Tree
39. Maiden Lane
40. The Maid Peeped Out of the Window
41. The Merry, Merry Milkmaids
42. The Milkmaid’s Bob
43. Millfield
44. Mundesse
45. My Lady Cullen
46. Newcastle
47. The New Exchange
48. New New Nothing
49. The Night Piece
50. Nonesuch
51. An Old Man is a Bed Full of Bones
52. The Old Mole
53. Once I Loved a Maiden Fair
54. Parson’s Farewell
55. Paul’s Steeple
56. Paul’s Wharf
57. Pepper’s Black
58. Petticoat Wag
59. The Picking of Sticks
60. Prince Rupert’s March
61. The Punk’s Delight
62. Rose is White and Rose is Red
63. Row Well, Ye Mariners
64. St Martins
65. Rufty Tufty
66. Scotch Cap or Edinburgh Castle
67. The Sarabande
68. Shepherd’s Holiday
69. Dargesson
70. Skellamelago or Don Pedro
71. Sir Roger
72. Stanes Morris
73. Step Stately
74. Stingo or The Oil of Barley
75. Upon a Summer’s Day
76. Uptails All
77. The Whirligig
78. Woodycock
79. I Love Thee Once
80. Parson Upon Dorothy
81. Trenchmore
82. Under and Over
83. Abergenny
84. Chelsea Reach or Buckingham House
85. The Duke of Lorraine’s March
86. Gelding of the Devil
87. Ginnie Pug or Strawberries and Cream
88. Hunsdon House
89. The New Exchange
90. Oranges and Lemons
91. Sellinger’s Round
92. Simple Simon or Huddle Duddle
93. Smith’s Rant or The Cuckoo
94. Spring Garden
95. Watton Town’s End
96. A Gavotte
97. Dour’s Catastrophe
98. Dunkirke
99. Jack a Lent
100. Glory of the North

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101. The Glory of the Sun
102. Iantha
103. An Italian Rant
104. The Lady Frances Nevill’s Delight
105. The Waits
106. Porter’s Lament
107. A Scotch Firk
108. Throw The House out of the Window
109. Amaryllis
110. Antic Dance
111. Black Jack
112. Bourrée Piccadilly
113. Coxes Dance
114. The Duke of York’s March
115. A Figure Dance
116. The Glory of the Kitchen
117. A Jig
118. The King’s Delight
119. New Marrinet
120. New Metar
121. The New Vagary
122. Old Bourrée
123. Old Marrinet
124. On the Cold Ground
125. The Queen’s Delight
126. The Running Bourrée
127. The Simeron’s Dance
128. Singleton’s Slip
129. Buff Coat
130. Cavylilly Man
131. Epping Forest
132. The Lady Murphy’s Delight
133. Sweet Kate
134. Ten Pound Lass
135. Bouzer Castle
136. The Cobbler’s Jig
137. The Mermaid
138. Nobody’s Jigg
139. Mr. Staggins Jig
140. Excuse Me
141. Greensleeves and Pudding Pieces
142. Johnny, Cock Thy Beaver
143. Pall-Mall or Pell-Mell
144. Vienna
145. Wolverton Hall
146. Young Jemmy
147. Jamaica
148. Ham House or Cherry Garden
149. Lady Day
150. The Mug House
151. Prince George’s March
152. The Garter or King James’s March
153. The Jockey or Four Pence Half-Penny Farthing
154. The Mask or Hey to the Camp
155. Bellamira
156. The Siege of Buda
157. Lillibulero
158. The New Rigadoon
159. Mr. Isaac’s Maggot
160. Pope Joan
161. Red House
162. Roger of Coverley
163. The Siege of Limerick
164. Valient Jockey
165. Bury Fair
166. Irish Bourrée
167. Man was for a Woman Made
168. St. Martin’s Lane
169. The Barley-Mow
170. Greenwich Park
171. Waltham Abbey
172. Damey
173. Blackheath
174. Black Nell
175. Czar of Muscovy
176. The Fiddler’s Morris
177. The Hare’s Maggot
178. Hill’s Maggot
179. The Irish Ground
180. The Last New French Rigaudon
181. The Lord Phoppington
182. Mother Brown’s Cat
183. Nottingham Castle
184. Portsmouth
185. St. Catherine
186. The Temple
187. Touch and Go
188. Fy, Nay, Prithee John
189. Wooden Shoes
190. Hunt the Squirrel
191. Dull St. John
192. Catching of Fleas
193. The French Ambassador
194. Round Robin
195. The English Passepied
196. The Catch Club
197. Bartholomew Fair
198. Ely Court
199. Lincoln or Bolton
200. The Red Bull

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Read more about John Playford in wikipedia.