Free Masons (2)
X:1 T:Freemason's March [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 S:Rev. James Pike music copybook (1730, Somersworth, N.H.) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G D|GAB BAG|FGA AFD|GAB BAG|Bdd d2:| |:c/B/|cde edc|BAG dcB|cBc Adc|BGG G2:|]
X:1 T:Free Masons March T:Freemason's March [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:March S:fifer Thomas Nixon Jr./Joseph Long copybook (c. 1776-78, p. 90) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A2|def fed|cde ecA|def fed|faa a2:| |:f|gab a2g|fed a2f|gfg eag|fdd d2:|
X:1 T:Free Mason’s March, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:March B:Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782, No. 175, p. 60) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|G>AB/c/ BAG|F>GA/B/ AFD|G>AB/c/ BAG|Bdd d2:| |:c/B/|cec d2c|B>AG d2 c/B/|cBc Adc|BGG G2:|]
X:1 T:Free Masons March, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:March S:The Buttery Manuscript (c. 1784-1820, No. 956) N:John Buttery (1784-1854) joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln, N:Lincolnshire, England, in 1797 and served as a fifer until discharged in N:1814. His large ms. contains marches, duty calls, dance tunes and airs. N:EASMES identifies this as the Fife MS. and suggests a date of 1780, see N: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|GAB BAG|FGA AFD|GAB BAG|Bdd d2:| |:B|cde edc|BAG d2c|BAG Adc|BGG G2:|]
X:1 T:Freemason's March T:Free Masons [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:March B:Patrick McGahon music manuscript collection (1817, No. 36) N:McGahon was a scribe of Irish language literature who lived in N:Dungooley, County Louth, on the Armagh border. He was a N:teacher with The Irish Society in the early 19th century, but little N:else is known about him. A few tunes in the ms. are written in other N:hands. B:Pádraigín Ní UIallacháin – “A Hidden Ulster” (2003, p. 446) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|d>ef fed|c>de e>cA|d>ef f>ed|faa a2:| |:f|g>ab a2g|f>ed a2f|g>fg eag|fdd d2:|
X:2 T:Free Mason's March M:6/8 L:1/8 R:March N:The front page of the publication indicates the volume was compiled by Elias Howe N:and arranged by "Messers. A.P. Knight and H. Seipp, of the Boston Brigade Band". B:Elias Howe - "First Part of the Musician's Companion" (Boston, 1842, p. 12). Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K: D A|def fed|cde edc|def fed|(f/g/a)a a2:| |:f|gab a2g|fed a2f|gfg eag|fdd d2:|]