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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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Item Title
British Field March
Alternate Title(s)
Take Her Out and Air Her
Touch Me If You Dare
Kit O'Mahony's Hornpipe
Miss Redmond's Hornpipe
Lovely Molly
Gilderoy
Author/Creator
Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Created/Published
August 27, 1966
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)
Notes
This and the following tune ("Santa Anna's Retreat," AFS 13035a33) are both marches that Henry Reed learned from Quince Dillion, an elderly fiddler and fife player from whom Henry Reed acquired many tunes as a boy. These two were specifically identified as fife tunes, and a trill at one juncture--not a normal feature of Henry Reed's fiddling--must be an echo of the fife original. In calling this piece "British Field March," he said that it was the march used by the British to retreat in the Battle of New Orleans, where Andrew Jackson and his American forces routed the British contingent. The tune is in fact an old British air that crops up in various forms, particularly from Irish sources; for instrumental sets, see for example Petrie, "The Complete Collection of Irish Music", #397 "Take Her Out and Air Her"; "O'Neill's Music of Ireland" #1388 "Touch Me If You Dare--2nd Setting" and #1593 "Kit O'Mahony's Hornpipe"; Joyce, "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs" (1909) #42 "Miss Redmond's Hornpipe"; "Manuscript Collection of Dance Tunes [ca. 1775-1800]" (Newberry Library, Chicago), p. 63 "Lovely Molly"; Ford, "Traditional Music of America" p. 43 "Gilderoy."
Key: A
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-4)
Rendition: 1-2-1r-2-1r-2
Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQC (abac abde qrse qrde)
Compass: 11
Stylistic features: Slurred bowing, somewhat slower pace; lots of use of fourth finger.
Spoken: HENRY REED: Do you want that march?/ALAN JABBOUR: Yeah, I'd sure . . . .
Recording chronology: 043
Duration: 1 minute, 37 seconds
Subject
Marches
Fiddle tunes
Instrumentals--fiddle
Ethnography
Music
United States--Virginia--Giles County--Glen Lyn
Object Type
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFC LWO 5031 reel 5A, AFS 13035A:32
Digital ID
afcreed 13035a32
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13035a32