Annotation:What You Please (2)
X: 1 T:What You Please [2]. (p)1657.PLFD1.135 M:6/4 L:1/4 Q:3/4=90 S:Playford, Dancing Master,3rd Ed.,1657 O:England;London H:1657. Z:Chris Partington <www.cpartington.plus> K:G d2ef>ga|A2d^c>de|dB2A>GF|GAFE2D:| |:D2EF>GA|EEFG>AB|Be>d^c>BA|afg/f/e2d:|
WHAT YOU PLEASE [2]. English, Country Dance Tune or Jig (6/4 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune with country dance directions was printed in London by John Playford and first appears in the 3rd edition of The Dancing Master. It was retained in the long-running series in every subsequent edition, through the 18th and final edition of 1728, then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. It was also published in John Walsh's The Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1731).
