Barn Elms

X: 1 T:Barn Elms C:John Young, Dancing Master, 1713 L:1/4 M:3/2 %%MIDI beat 100 95 80 S:Colin Hume's website, www.colinhume.com  - chords can also be printed below the stave. %%MIDI gchord fcHcfc Q:1/2=92 K:Bb P:A P:B "Bb"fb- "^/"ba "G7"gd | "A"=ea- "^/"ag "D7"^fd | "Gm"gf- "^/"fe- "Cm"ed | "D7"dc/B/ "^/"A2 "Gm"G2 :|
 * "Gm"dg- "^/"ga "^/"ba/g/ | "D7"^f/g/a "^/"dc "^/"BA | "Gm"BG "^/"B/c/d "D7"ed | "Gm"de/d/ "Cm"c2 "D7"d2 :|
 * "Bb"df- "^/"fg "F7"f/g/f/e/ | "Bb"dB- "^/"Bf "^/"bf | "G7"gf- "^/"fe/d/ "^/"ed | "Cm"cc/d/ "F7"ef "Bb"dB |



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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