Key signature: Ddorian
Submitted on August 11th 2003 by Trevor Jennings.
This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.
Also known as A La Mode De France, The Lady's Bransle, Nonsuch.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Nonesuch
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Ddor
|:a|af ga|fe/2f/2 da|af ga|f2 d:|
|:e|ec de|fe/2f/2 de|ec de|f2 d:|
Nonesuch
This tune has been submitted in response to a request. It is a Playford tune, and is designated as a polka by virtue of its 2/4 time signature.
Nonesuch was a hunting lodge built in 1538 by Henry VIII over the demolished property of the village of Cuddington, near Epsom Wells in Sussex, with the intention that it should be the most ostentatious hunting lodge ever made. At the very end of her life, Elizabeth I visited Nonesuch, as a guest of Lord Lumley, son-in-law of the Earl of Arundel, and it was reported that "there is much dancing of country dances in the privy chamber at Nonesuch, before the Queen's majesty, who is exceedingly pleased therewith". The Queen apparently was a great dancer in her youth.
Trevor
# Posted on August 11th 2003 by Trevor Jennings
Nonesuch/Other Playford Tunes
An abc file of several Playford tunes, including Nonesuch, is available from:
http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc.tunes/Playford.abc
Most Playford tunes are pretty easy to find on the net, particularly if you look around the web sites of historical re-enactment / period dance societies.
# Posted on August 11th 2003 by Tish
Lyrics (Glenn Turner and Hope Athearn, 1969)
Oh, She will bring the buds in the spring
and dance among the flowers.
In summer's heat Her kisses are sweet,
She sings in leafy bowers.
She cuts the cane, She gathers the grain,
when fruits of fall surround Her.
Her bones grow old in wintery cold,
She wraps Her cloak around Her.
But She will bring the buds in the spring...
(repeat ad libitum)
# Posted on November 11th 2003 by rangergordon
Different Tune
This tune is Nonesuch. A la mode de France is almost the same, just play it, as if it was in D, with F sharp and C Sharp
# Posted on September 17th 2004 by Ranks
Indeed the tune is Nonesuch which appeared in Playford's 1st edition in 1651. A la mode de France is similar but a different tune which also appeared in Playford's first edition. Both are set in 2/2 time in modern 'Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master'.
# Posted on November 3rd 2009 by Barry Pearce