Annotation:Flora's Birthday
X: 10672 T: FLORA'S BIRTHDAY C: %R: jig B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 1 1842 p.67 #2 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A |\ f2f fed | a2a agf | bag fed | cde A2A | f2f fed | a2a agf | egb cde | d2f d2 :| |: (c/d/) |\ e2e age | d2d dfa | geg fdf | (f3 e2) (f/g/) | a2a afa | b2b bd'b | afa gec | d2f d2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
FLORA'S BIRTHDAY. American, Jig (6/8 time). C Major (Howe/1843): D Major (Howe/1867, O'Flannagan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appaers in a number of Boston publisher Elias Howe's publications, including his 1860 volume by Patrick O'Flannagan (Hibernia Collection), indicating he perhaps thought that the tune had an Irish provenance. The melody was entered as a duet into the music manuscript collection of American musician M.E. Eames, dated Aug. 22nd, 1859 (Eames was probably from Philadelphia, Pa.).
