Newcastle

X:6701
T:Newcastle
F:http://richardrobinson.tunebook.org.uk/tune/5101
H:Simpson feels that the surviving tune is not the one which had some
H:currency in Elizabethan days.  He points out that wrenchings of accent
H:are necessary to accomplish the fit of Playford's dance tune to a
H:curious fragment of text found in the 18th century Percy folio MS, a
H:source of dubious authenticity itself.
H:Came you not from
H:Newcastle?
H:Came yee not there away? &c
H:It is quite possible that
H:this dance was inspired by William, Duke of Newcastle, a royalist who
H:remained in London and bent his interests towards the theatre during
H:the interregnum.
L:1/4
M:4/4
Q:200
K:G
BdGA|G>AGD|BdGd|eg2 f/2e/2|dBAG|Ee2 d/2c/2|dBA>G|1 G4:|2 G3 e/2f/2||
 L:1/8 
gfed g3B|A2 g4 A2|G3A B2F2|E2 e8 f2|gfed g3B|A2A2 c3d|e2B2 A3G|G8||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc.tunes/Playford/0077
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/LesterBailey/melnets_big_abc_file/09201
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/09201
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/ceolas.org/Playford/0077
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/dasher.org.uk/Newcastle/0000