Buttrey Manuscript – Index 7
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Buttrey Manuscript (#532 – #533)
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| 532 | Damond and Fillis A Troop 4/4 D Carroll – K. Purvis “Could the baffling title actually be Damen and Filles”? (Ladies and Girls in German and French)” – Ian Bell Ont. Trad. Lib. “Damon and Phyllis” – stock young lovers in many pastoral poems from at least the 16thC – Village Music Project |
| 533 | Mullowny’s Jigg 6/8 D) “Malowney’s Wife”, Bean-Ceile Ui Maoileoin, Bashful Maid (The), Biddy Maloney, Maloney’s Fancy, Maloney’s Jig, Malloney’s Wife, Mellonie’s Jig, Miss Ommany’s Reel, Paddy in London, What do You Think of Her Now?, Malowney’s Jig, Mullowny’s Jigg – tunearch.org Published by Straight & Skillern, London ca.1775 – trillian.mit.edu |
Buttrey Manuscript (#534 – #537)
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| 534 | Round the World for Spoart 6/8 G (Sport) |
| 535 | A French Cuntry Dans 3/8 G (Country) |
| 536 | A Quick Step 2/4 D |
| 537 | Pholin O Gristy A Reel 6/8 D “Robin O’Christy”? – Village Music Project |
Buttrey Manuscript (#538 – #540)
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| 538 | A Quick Step to 17th Regt 6/8 G Aird Vol 1 – K. Purvis |
| 539 | A Quick Step 2/4 G |
| 540 | A Quick Step 2/4 G “Sportsman’s Hornpipe” – Village Music Project “Oldham Sportsman” |
Buttrey Manuscript (#541 – #544)
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| 541 | A Quick Step 2/4 D |
| 542 | A Quick Step 6/8 G |
| 543 | A Slow March 2/2 G |
| 544 | Count Conway’s March 2/2 D Count Thomas Conway, 1733-c1800, had an interesting career – Village Music Project (served under George Washington) |
Buttrey Manuscript (#545)
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| 545 | Patrick’s Day in the Morning with Variations 6/8 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#546 – #550)
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| 546 | Barisett’s Hornpipe 2/2 G “Parisot’s Hornpipe”; “Madam Parisott’s Hornpipe” – Usually a dotted hornpipe, but not on this occasion – Village Music Project |
| 547 | Peggey’s Love 2/2 D (Peggy’s) |
| 548 | York Races 6/8 G |
| 549 | The East Nook of Five 4/4 G Aird Vol 1 slightly different – K.Purvis “The East Nook of Fife” – Village Music Project The East Neuk Of Fife, East Newk Of Fife, The East Nuke Of Fife, East Of Neuk O’Fife – composed by James Oswald (1711 – 1769) as “She gripped the Greatness o’t”, incl. in his Caledonian Pocket Companion (Bk. 4, 1752) – thesession.org “East Neuk of Fife” – William McGibbon’s Third Collection (1755) and Robert Bremner’s 1759 – tunearch.org |
| 550 | A Quick Step 2/2 G An English Country Dance tune – Village Music Project |
Buttrey Manuscript (#551 – #554)
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| 551 | Logan Watter A Quick Step 2/4 D “Lagan Water” – Village Music Project |
| 552 | A Slow March or Long Troop 2/2 D |
| 553 | Mis Gorden’s of Thorp’s Reel 2/2 G “Miss/Mrs Garden/Gorden of Troop” – Village Music Project |
| 554 | The Lincoln Hornpipe 4/4 G A beautiful haunting melody. Absolutely stunning. This is not the President Lincoln Hornpipe; nor the Lincoln Hornpipe [aka Fisher’s Hornpipe, aka R?el du P?cheur] as found in Joshua Gibbons MS 1823 or Thomas Sands’ MS 1810. Another similarly named tune from the same period, the Lincolnshire Hornpipe also seems distinct – Village Music Project |
Buttrey Manuscript (#555 – #560)
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| 555 | Bugle Pice 2/2 D (Piece) With these instructions between the lines: “the 1st part beat With lofty Drum’s Quick Step Way” “the 2nd Part kettld – Muffld Drum’s)” “the Last Part flam & Lofty Drum’s” |
| 556 | Mifs Wimbles Fancey A Quick Step 6/8 G (Miss) |
| 557 | A Quick Step 6/8 G |
| 558 | Mifs Lookets Fancey 2/4 G (Miss Locket’s Fancy) Lucy Locket was a character in The Beggar’s Opera – Village Music Project |
| 559 | Lady Stormonts Gigg 6/8 D |
| 560 | Quick Step to the 52nd Regiment 2/4 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#561 – #563)
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| 561 | A Slow March 2/2 G A beautiful slow 3-part march with a haunting finish Village Music Project |
| 562 | The Merry Dancers A Quick Step 6/8 G “Lasses of Our Town” – Village Music Project |
| 563 | A Quick Step 2/4 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#563 – #568)
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| 564 | Bony Beast Notes 2/4 D Gibbs “The Lady’s Breast Knot”; Aird Vol 1 “Bonny Breast Notes”, exact copy – K. Purvis “The Bonny Breast Knot(s); “Daddy Shot a Bear”; “Jaybird”; “Ladies Briest Knot”; Ladies Bfeast Knots”; “Looking Glass”; “The Pennsylvania Fifers”; “The Snood” – Village Music Project |
| 565 | Wher Will Our Goodman Lye 2/4 G “Little Red House in Cardiff”; “Red House” – Village Music Project “Where will Our Good Man Lay?” “Where wad our Bonnie Annie Lye?” – Caledonian Pocket Companion Book 2, 1760 – tunearch.org |
| 566 | Batchelors of Every Station 2/4 G (Bachelors) Carroll, Aird Vol 2 – K. Purvis |
| 567 | Wight Jock 6/8 D Carroll – K. Purvis “White Joak” – Village Music Project Published in 1731 by John Walsh in 3rd book. Appears in Henry Fielding’s play of the 1730s: The Lottery, a Farce – thesession.org |
| 568 | Bob at the Bouster 6/8G Aird Vol 1, exact copy – K. Purvis |
Buttrey Manuscript (#569 – #573)
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| 569 | Come Ashore Jolly Tar With Your Trousers On 4/4 G Aird Vol 1. No. 190, 1782 – K. Purvis – almost exactly |
| 570 | Sir Alex McDonald’s Reel 2/4 D |
| 571 | The Secilian Peasent 6/8D (Sicilian Peasant) Carroll – K. Purvis |
| 572 | A Quick Step 2/4 G A very pretty tune! I think it’s used as an English country dance setting – Village Music Project |
| 573 | A Quick Step 2/4 G “Ashley’s Flag” – A light jovial tune – Village Music Project |
Buttrey Manuscript (#573 – #578)
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| 574 | The Collodge Hornpipe A Troop 2/2 G (College) |
| 575 | The Reel of Toloughgorum 2/2 G (Tullochgorum) “This “first of songs,” (as Burns calls it) was written by the Rev. John Skinner, in the house of a lady named Montgomery, in the town of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, where he happened to be on a visit. The lady is said to have asked for a song after dinner, in order to put a stop to a political dispute, and at the same time to have expressed surprise that the fine old strathspey, called The Reel of Tullochgorum, had no appropriate words to it… it was first printed in the Scots Weekly Magazine April, 1776″ – The Book of Scottish Song – Alex Whitelaw |
| 576 | A Quick Step by N.D. 6/8 D By former drummer Nicholas Dorman – Eamonn O’Keeffe |
| 577 | Jenny Bang the Weaver 2/2 D Gow 1799 Jenny Dang the Weaver – K. Purvis Composed by the Rev. Alexander Garden (c1700 – 1777) Violinist, poet and composer – thesession.org |
| 578 | Too Late for Breakfast A Quick Step 6/8 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#579 – #584)
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| 579 | The Colledg Hornpipe 4/4 D (College?) “Trumpet Hornpipe” “Capt. Pugwash” “Lascelles Hornpipe” – Village Music Project |
| 580 | Cuntry Dance by N. Dorman 4/4 D (Country) By former drummer Nicholas Dorman – Eamonn O’Keeffe |
| 581 | A Quick Step 2/4 G |
| 582 | A Quick Step 2/4 G |
| 583 | A Hornpipe 4/4 G |
| 584 | A Hornpipe 4/4 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#584 – #588)
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| 585 | A Hymn 2/4 C “Helmsley attr. Thomas Olivers “Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending” – Village Music Project |
| 586 | Pease Bridge A Strathspey 2/2 G Pease Bridge – 1786 – David Henderson, mason/architect. Four tall arches, nearly 39m (130ft) high over the Pease Dean, Scotish Borders – the highest bridge in the world at the time of construction. Abraham MacIntosh 1792 Collection – Village Music Project |
| 587 | Weddeburn Huse A Reel 2/2 G “Wedderburn House” – Abraham MacIntosh 1792; Appears in Thirty New Strathspey Reels Etc. (Edinburgh, c. 1792) – Village Music Project |
| 588 | A Poor But an Honnist Soldier 2/2 G (Honest) “Deadly Wars” “Blue-eyed Stranger” The title of this tune is a line from Robert Burns “When Wild Wars Deadly Blast”. The tune has similarities to “The Mill, Mill o” and “The Soldier’s Return”. This is the tune Burns suggested that the poem be sung to. https://thesession.org/tunes/14436 – Village Music Project |
Buttrey Manuscript (#589 – #594)
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| 589 | Links of Leith 2/2 D |
| 590 | The British Heroes 6/8 G |
| 591 | The Handsome Fellow 2/4 |
| 592 | The Margate Hoy 6/8 G Fashionable boat trip; Comic song by Charles Dibdin 1804, and then a popular print – tunearch.org – Village Music Project(print not in ms) |
| 593 | Capt Flemings Delight 2/4 G |
| 594 | The Little Gipsy 9/8 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#595 – #599)
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| 595 | A Trip to Dunkirk 2/4 G |
| 596 | A Trip to Gibralter 6/8 D (Gilbraltar) |
| 597 | Tulbury Castle 6/8 D (Tutbury?) |
| 598 | The Surrender of Toulon 2/2 G Toulon, France – occurred 1793 |
| 599 | The Whip 6/8 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#600 – #601)
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| 600 | A Quick Step 2/4 G |
| 601 | A Singel Dragg by TR 2/2 G (Single) |
Buttrey Manuscript (#601 – #606)
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| 602 | A Quick Step 6/8 D |
| 603 | A Bugal Quick Step 2/4 G (Bugle) |
| 604 | A Bugle Quick Step 4/4 G (Bugle) |
| 605 | A Bugal Quick Step 2/4 D (Bugle) |
| 606 | A Quick Step 2/2 D |
Buttrey Manuscript (#607 – #611)
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| 607 | Saylors Are Bound for All Weather 9/8 D (Sailors) |
| 608 | The London Prentis 2/4 G |
| 609 | A Singel Dragg 2/2 D (Single) |
| 610 | Hears a Helth to All Good Lases A Side Beating 2/4 G (Here’s, Health, Lasses) (Harmony #45) |
| 611 | A Hunting We Will Goo A Quick Step 6/8 G |
Buttrey Manuscript (#612 – #616)
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| 612 | A French March 2/2 G “La Marseillaise” written 1792 – K. Purvis |
| 613 | A Singel Dragg 2/2 D (Single) |
| 614 | A Hornpipe 2/2 D |
| 615 | A Singel Dragg 6/8 D (Single) |
| 616 | A Quick Step by J By 6/8 D “John By” ??  Index: “by J But” ?? |
Buttrey Manuscript (#617 – #621)
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| 617 | A Song 4/4 D |
| 618 | The Union 9/8 G |
| 619 | Sweet Pall Of Plymouth A Song 2/2 G |
| 620 | Cumberland Reel 2/2 G |
| 621 | Bruses of Marr 2/2 D (Braes) Gow 1802 – K. Purvis |
Buttrey Manuscript (#621 – #623)
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| 622 | Mifs Bakers Hornpipe 2/2 G (Miss) |
| 623 | The Ganb of Ould Gaul 2/2 G “The Garb of Old Gaul” is an 18th-century patriotic Scottish march and song about Highland soldiers during the Seven Years’ War – Wkikpedia |
Melodies #624 & #625 are listed on the next index.
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Buttrey Military / Social Tunes 1790-1840 