Quodling's Delight
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Quodling's Delight", also known as "Goddesses", "The Oak and Ash" and "I Would I<br> were in My Own Country" is an English air and country dance tune in 4/4 or cut time<br> and A Minor. The parts are played AABB.<br> The air appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (1609) (attributed to Giles Farnaby),<br> Sir John Hawkin's Transcripts of Music for the Virginals and John Playford's <br> Dancing Master of 1651 (where it appears as<br> "Goddesses").<br> Walker, in History of Music in England (1924), says the “Quodling” title appeared<br> first, set to this “jovial Elizabethan dance-melody” and that “Goddesses” appeared<br> in the 17th century, followed by an 18th century permutation of the tune into the<br> well-known<br> "The Oak and the Ash".<br> Researcher Graham Christian (A Playford Assembly, 2015) explains that<br> quodling was a version of codling, meaning an unripe apple, "but was also a<br> jocular term for a young law student, still full of 'quids' and 'quods'".<br> It was also printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time vol. 1 (1859).<br> It wa recorded by Pieter-Jan Belder on Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 4:<br> Giles Farnaby & John Bull (2015),<br> Ian Terry, Tony Scheuregger and Judith Havens on Among The Leaves So Green (1976) and<br> Idlewild on Epping Forest (2012).<br>
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