The 29th of May

Another in the "Kidson" series--melodies from Frank Kidson's Old English Country Dances (1890). Kidson calls this "an exceedingly fine and marked air of Charles the Second's time." It appears in the 1686 edition of Playford "and is continued through the later editions."

The first phrase has a clearly defined descent pattern, with a marked registral shift in the closing arpeggio (what obviously must be F#5 is actually given as F#4).

In the second section, an single rising line runs through both phrases, but the registral shift is repeated, this time to finish the ascent (B5-C#6-D6 become B4-C#5-D5).