Cornish Squire
No Words
REFERENCES
Playford
Dancing Master
9th Edition book 2 page 19
(Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Box MPS 60(31)
Dunstan
Lyver Canow Kernewek / Cornish Song Book, Reid Bros Ltd, London, 1929
Davey, A and M
Corollyn, Cam Kernewek, Perranporth, 1993 (see bibliography).
Racca 2, Calstock, 1997 (see Bibliography)
No 215
NOTES
From Corollyn
" Playford includes the `Cornish Squire` in his collection `The Dancing Master` published in 1650. He gives no indication as to the origins of
The dance or why it is called the `Cornish` Squire. Here we have arranged
The moves given by Playford to fit with a Cornish Style of dance and Music ...
...Playford Family John (1623 - 1686) son Henry (1657 - 1707) and
nephew John published the Dancing Master in successive editions for 70 years
from 1651 to 1728. They put into print for the first time traditional and contemporary dances with associated tunes. Both traditional tunes and those composed by other people were published at a time when the commonwealth was in power and puritans frowned upon gaiety. John Playford was a contemporary and friend of Henry Purcell and apparently published some of the composers early work.
The Cornish Squire is included in 9th Edition of the Dancing Master.
Dunstan includes the Tune with his ownarrangement in Lyver Canow Kernewek 1929"
(Corollyn, Cam Kernewek, Perranporth, 1993 (see bibliography).
Playford Tune 
Corollyn Tune
