Annotation:How are you now my maid?
X:1 T:How are you now my maid M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:The Buttery Manuscript (c. 1784-1820, No. 747) 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 c|BAB c2A A2c|BAB d2G G2c|BAB c2A A2f|def g2G G2:| |:d|def gag fed|edB c2A A2d|def gag fed|def g2G G2:|]
HOW ARE YOU NOW, MY MAID? AKA and see "Fear Mór (An)," "Is the Big Man Within?," "Merry Tailor (The)." Irish, English; (Slip) Jig (9/8 time 'A' part & 6/8 time 'B' part). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody is contained in the music copybook [1] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with British army's 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (so designated in the army reorganization of 1782), who served from 1797-1814. Later in life Buttery emigrated to Canada, where he died. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife [1], with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. The jig was learned by collector P.W. Joyce [2] (1827-1914) as a boy in County Limerick in the 1830's, and printed in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909). It was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. 2, p. 170) of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist), as well with the title "How are you now, my maid?" but with parts reversed from Joyce. The melody was printed in Frank Roche's early 20th century Irish music collection under the title "Fear Mór (An)."
- ↑ Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm