Annotation:Frog Galliard (The)

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 FROG GALLIARD, THE. AKA - "Now O Now I Needs Must Part." English, Country Dance Tune (3/2 or 6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This 16th century air appears in Morley's Consort Lessons (1597), Robinson's New Cithren Lessons (1609), Nederlantsche Gedenck-Clanck (1626), Stichtelycke Rymen (1647), and a lute MSS. in the Cambridge University library. John Dowland published it as "Now, o now I needs must part" in his First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1597). The tune was published in 1649 in the Netherlands in a volume called Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (The Flute's Garden of Delights) by Jacob van Eyck (c. 1590-1657), a recorder player, carillonneur of the Utrecht Dom Cathedral, and director of all the bells and clock-chimes of the city. He called it "Harte Diefje, Waerom Zoo Stil" (Little Thief of My Heart; Why so Still?). Chappell (1859) says several ballads were written to the tune.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 1, 1859; pp. 274-275.  Recorded sources:

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