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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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