Annotation:Captain MacIntosh (1)
X:1 T:Captain Mackintosh [1] M:C L:1/8 R:March B:Button & Whitaker's Pocket Collection of Favorite Marches, B:for Two German Flutes, Violins, or Fifes (London, 1780). Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A|d>e df dA AA|d>e df a3f|(bg)(ge) (af)(fd)|ef ge (dc) BA| d>e df dA AA|d>e df a3f|(bg)(ge) (af)(fd)|(ge)(ec) d3:| |:d|a>b a>b ge ef|g>a g>a f3d|A(d/e/ f)d B(e/f/ g)e|bg ed (dc) BA| d>e df dA AA| d>e df. A3f|(bg)(ge) (af)(fd)| (ge)(ec) d3:||
CAPTAIN MACINTOSH [1]. AKA - "Captain McIntosh," "Capt. Mackintosh's Fancy." AKA and see "I say mind missey what you do: More so when you are tipsey." English; March or Reel. A Major (Trim/Hardy): D Major (Kennedy): C Major (Howe) . Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Howe, Kennedy): AAB (Trim): AABB (Mattson & Walz). "Captain Mackintosh" was published in Button & Whitaker's[1] Pocket Collection of Favorite Marches, for Two German Flutes, Violins, or Fifes (London, 1780? and 1806). It also appears in Samuel Holyoke's Instrumental Assistant, vol. 1 (p. 31), published in 1800 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and in Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816). In manuscript form it can be found in the Thomas Hardy family collection, Dorset England. Country dance versions, much simplified, can be found as "Captain McIntosh (2)."
The melody was entered in the 1821 music manuscript of fiddler John Burks, of whom, unfortunately nothing is know; however, his ms. has an English provenance. Burks titled the tune "I say mind missey what you do: More so when you are tipsey," which was probably the first line or chorus of a song set to it.
- ↑ Benjamin Button purchased the music publishing business of the Thompson family that had been premier in London for the second half of the 18th century. John Whitaker was an organist and tune composer who was added to the firm in 1808, which published as Button & Whittaker until 1816, when Mr. Beadnell was added to the partnership.