A Charming Collection of English Country Dances

A Charming Collection of English Country Dances (Seventeenth-Century Music)

3/4/2019

I recently came across a delightful collection of seventeenth-century music simply titled English Country Dances. The musicians featured on the record include David Douglass, Paul O'Dette, and Andrew Lawrence-King. I am no expert in English music, but I found the collection particularly charming and pleasing to the ear. Perhaps you will, too.

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Bruce Charlton

3/4/2019 16:18:58

This is from Playford's Dancing Master https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancing_Master which is an absolute treasure trove. Many of the tunes played by my favourite English folk musicians of the 70s, and which I learned by ear, came from it. The Dancing Master seems to embody a 17th century Englishness which particularly appeals to me - it fits with Purcell, and the writings of Thomas Traherne and John Aubrey.

Francis Berger

3/4/2019 21:25:03

@ Bruce Charlton

This music is so enchanting and refreshing. I have been listening to the selection above for the better part of a week, and I can't get enough.

Thank you very much for passing the information about Playford's Dancing Master on to me. I am fairly ignorant about 17th-century English music and am delighted by the chance to delve further into this "treasure trove."

Funny thing, I posted this music because I simply did not have the time to compose a blog entry today - what I assumed to be a bit of a "cop-out" on my part has turned into a wonderful slice of serendipity.

Many thanks once again.

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