Parthenia (arr. Swarbrick), mandolin & guitar

This is an English country dance tune, which I have learned from Dave Swarbrick's album 1983 album "Flittin", as transcribed by Maartin Allcock for his epic book "Dave Swarbrick Fiddle Tunes". Like Swarb, I am playing the tune rather stately, more like a slow air than a country dance.

"Parthenia" was the title of a 17th century broadside ballad associated with the Playford tunes. It was also the title of the first ever printed volume of music published in England in 1611 by William Byrd and Thomas Tallis -- the title is a pun on the name of the keyboard instrument "virginals", as Parthenia is another name for maidenhead.

Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar