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Lady Hammonds Alman
(Lady Laitons Alman)
I first came across a tune called Lady Hammonds Alman in a book of country dances. It comprised just a melody. As I played it on mandolin I was adding plenty of double stops, and I wrote these down. I then added a bass line. Later, I discovered the piece to be a composition of the Elizabethan lutenist, John Dowland. Later still, I found the piece under the name, Lady Laitons Alman, but I have retained the Lady Hammond title simply because that is how I first encountered it!
An alman (aka almand, almand, allemande etc) is a dance in duple time. Thoinot Arbeau, in his Orchesography of 1589, states that The Alman is a simple, rather sedate dance, familiar to the Germans, and, I believe, one of our oldest since we are descended from them. (Allemande means German in French.)
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