1..William Irwin\u2019s Manuscript Tune Book, 1838
\nAcc. No. QM 9732
\nPartial Transcription by Anne Geddes Gilchrist.
\nFiled with the Anne Geddes Gilchrist Manuscript Collection, AGG\/2\/137,
\nVaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park, London.
\nTranscribed into ABC with the suffix \u201cWI.xxx\u201d, and these notes, by Chris Partington, 2005
\nThe original MS has not been located.
\nThe following are AGG\u2019s notes accompanying her transcription.
\nAGG\u2019s notes in normal script, my comments are in italic script, and tunes transcribed are in bold.
\n\u201cWm. Irwin\u2019s MS
\nOblong MS. 6 staves.
\nOn title page \u201cWilliam Irwin\u2019s Book Jan 2 1838\u201d.
\nAt least three different hands, and the book is made up from different MSS, some of the titles being cut across at the top, in cutting up for binding.
\nThe name is written on the back of the first ruled page, which back is blank.
\n104 leaves. 312 tunes or pieces, chiefly dance music.
\n55 hornpipes, 33 reels, 17 strathspeys, 59 waltzes, 1 each cottilion, highland fling, minuet, gallop, jig. 2 quicksteps (ie marches.CGP) dances various 16, and a set of 24 for the year 1838 (this includes 5 waltzes) 12 sets quadrilles and the original Lancers.
\n9 vocal airs arranged sometimes for instruments, and about a dozen pieces. (presumably meaning \u201c concert pieces\u201d.CGP)
\n\u201cThe first tune in the book is \u201cA Hornpipe\u201d[Lascelles], the second \u201cBilley Pitt\u201d, third \u201cFlowers Of Edinburgh\u201d called a \u201cDuble Reel\u201d. \u201cI\u2019ll go no more to yon town\u201d, Green sleaves\u201d[really Rushes O]
\nThen follow tunes:
\nBilley Pitt
\nGreen Sleaves cf green grows in Kershaw\u2019s MS
\nReel cf green grows (K) & Polly put the kettle on
\nJames Mc Kenney or Renney\u2019s Hornpipe
\nHornpipe
\n\u201cSteam Boat Hornpipe
\nHighland Lad (my love was born)
\nJames McKenney\u2019s is very Scotch. Is it a song?
\nThree Harrows HP
\nAstley\u2019s Hornpipe and Ride
\nCottillion[rare]
\n\u201cAbsent from collection: (presumably meaning there was an index.CGP)
\nPaternally.The Triumph.Tekeli.Jean de Paris.Sir Roger de Coverley.John Peel.Haste to the Wedding(?).Caledonian Hunt=this is \u201cThis is no my ain lassie\u201d as a Strathspey.The Wounded Hussar. Same tune as in MS TB (Thomas Bennet? See VMP, but Wounded Hussar not in it, and no record of any other TB. CGP) but rather different.\u201d
\nBrampton Reel
\nNorth Tyne is the highland fling
\nThe Wounded Hussar
\nKeswick Bonney Lasses Hornpipe
\nLiverpool Hornpipe
\nThe Wind That Bloeth The Barley
\n\u201cAnother book, in the same hand, seems to begin here.
\nThe Soldiers Joy
\nRachil Ray \u2013 a reel
\nFairey Dance (Gow\u2019s)without the dots
\nSheffield Hornpipe
\n\u201cTwenty four dances for the year 1838\u2019 are now transcribed:
\nCamilla(Paer).La Ega(quadrille).The Comus Dance.The Eclipse.The Ally.Lady Hamilton\u2019s Favorite.Ivanhoe(this is the highland laddie).Dr Syntax.The Tickler.Waltz.La Clovis.Gioveneni.Lady Hamilton\u2019s Waltz.Claudine.New King of Prussia\u2019s Waltz.Queen Caroline\u2019s Waltz.Sauteuse.The Tarter.Clonius.La Camire(quadrille).Argyl.The Tanney Waltz.Don Juan.
\nCottage Hornpipe
\nLea Riggs Hornpipe
\nWelcome to your feet again (!)
\nThe Countess of St. Paul\u2019s Strathspey composed by Matthew Henderson
\nThe Marquis of Huntly\u2019s Snuff Mill (Lassie would you love me?)
\nRoxburgh Castle by Alex Given(?)
\nScotch Waltz (very Scotch snap-py)
\nCopenhagen Waltz
\nTyrol Waltz (Pretty Little Polly Hopkins)
\n(Lander type) Waltz
\nMiss Dillon\u2019s
\n\u2018Honourable Swiss Dollows Waltz\u2019
\nGarland Dance (not the usual)
\nThe Bears Advancing, a slow march
\nQueen Caroline
\nQueen caroline\u2019s waltz (1838 waltz)
\nJonney Cope
\nTyrol Waltz
\nWaltz (another type)
\nHugarian Waltz(when I was a Lady)(see the simpler form in MS 42)
\n\u201cpretty little polly Hopkins how do you do-oo how do you do-oo
\nnone the better, Mr Tomkins, for seeing you-oo, for seeing you-oo\u201d
\nGeneral Blucher\u2019s Waltz
\nBugal waltz
\nJack Lattin (reel?)
\nLady Caroline Lee\u2019s Waltz
\nA Waltz titti|titti turn titti|titti turn (note various waltz types)
\nMaggie Lowther (halfway to the Lowther in another MS)
\nBrampton Waltz
\n\u201cBrampton:The Devonshire march\u201d
\nafter this a Strauss waltz
\nCoolin with variations -An Irish Air(illegible) for ever Amen
\nThe March and a highland battle. Descriptive piece, style of the Battle of Prague, with stage directions!
\nThe Mountain Boy (Had I the wings of a dove)
\nThe Canderllonly Rosue (sic)
\nDidelot\u2019s dance in Virginia
\nA Waltz
\nQuadrille (Scotch Air?)
\nCa Ira Is this of French origin?
\nLadie\u2019s Lips
\nSomething Irish \u2013 Lumie Me Twaller[?]
\nThe Old Langolee
\nAnglo Caledonian Air [commonplace]
\nCherry Ripe
\nI\u2019ve been ??ning
\nDi Tante Palpeti (!)[Le Garcon Volante]
\nOh It\u2019s Love
\nLe Petit Tambour
\nBonny Prince Charlie [cam ye by ??]
\nCarlton House 6\/8 (is this a health to Betty?)
\n\u201cThs is copied because it has the style of a Hunting Song. There may be words attached to the air.
\nThis follows a quadrille without title \u201cVive Henri Quatrue(?)\u201d
\nSeven of Strauss\u2019s Most Celebrated Waltzes Arr. For Flute and Piano
\nCarlton House
\nQuadrille [Il Etait Une Bergue?]
\nStybarrow Crag a hornpipe by Hamilton
\nThe Loyalist\u2019s Hornpipe
\n\u201c?Jim a long Josey in the hornpipe stile(!) by W.Irwin
\nDue Mungoe [in Quarto book also]
\nLord Fife\u2019s Strathspey
\nAlso Miss Elliot\u2019s, both with elaborate variations (4 sets), triplets in a bar
\nHope\u2019s Hornpipe
\nThe North Shore Hornpipe
\nThe Ranger\u2019s Hornpipe
\nHarding\u2019s Hornpipe
\nBannister\u2019s Hornpipe
\n?Robinhood Waltzes
\nLady Wellington\u2019s Hornpipe
\nThe Stony Steps Hp
\nGrand Reformation Hp
\nTrue Blue Hp
\nLast Hope
\nColgarth Hornpipe
\nBanks Hornpipe
\nLancashire Hornpipe
\nA Touch Under The Blankett \u2013 an old jig
\n\u201cThe following in the small nea t music script with the queer staff
\nKendal Hornpipe
\nKendal Reel
\nUp and Follow Charlie
\nWest Barns Brewery Strathspey
\n?Garrick\u2019s Hornpipe
\nRobinson\u2019s Hornpipe
\nMcLeod\u2019s Reel and Strathspey
\nMac Ruth\u2019s Reel
\nDonald\u2019s Hornpipe
\n?Devent Castle Hornpipe [Derwent?]
\nWindermere Regatta
\nWard\u2019s Hornpipe
\nHump ?Landlay or Over The Dike Bellow
\nDurham Hornpipe
\nBrian O\u2019Niel
\nOld Spedling\u2019s Castle\u2019s Ghost Dance (ommited from the Porteus Coll in W.Irwin folio coll)
\nEND OF AGG\u2019s TRANSCRIPTION OF THE Wm IRWIN 1838 MS
\nIt will be remembered that earlier AGG said there were 312 pieces in this collection, but I can only count approximately 150 (some are referred to and also transcribed, thus occuring twice in the above list) which are referred to by name, 40 of which have been transcribed by AGG (in Bold).
\n2..William Irwin\u2019s Folio Manuscript, c1850
\nAcc. No. QM 9731
\nPartial Transcription by Anne Geddes Gilchrist.
\nFiled with the Anne Geddes Gilchrist Manuscript Collection, AGG\/2\/135,
\nVaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park, London.
\nTranscribed into ABC, and these notes, by Chris Partington, 2005
\nThe original MS has not been located.
\nThe following are AGG\u2019s notes accompanying her transcription.
\nAGG\u2019s notes are in normal script, my comments are in italics, and tunes transcribed are in bold.
\n\u201cWm Irwin\u2019s MS 2 (Folio)
\nThe first tune is ?Wormwell\u2019s Grand March,
\nthe second Buonapart\u2019s Coronation March.
\nLord Harwick\u2019s March
\nWeber\u2019s Last Waltz
\nHandel\u2019s Water Piece
\nQueen Victoria\u2019s Step Gallop
\nCupid\u2019s Quadrilles
\nDrops of Brandy
\nBuonapart\u2019s Coronation March
\nQueen Victoria Step Gallop
\nJullien\u2019s La Polka – a note is written in against this: \u201cThe Polka first came up about 1843 in Bohemia\u201d.
\nLass of Richmond Hill
\nKing\u2019s Polka
\nYoung Napoleon\u2019s Waltz
\nA Quickstep by W.Irwin
\nA Hornpipe
\nElphins Waltz
\nOverture to Tancredi
\nHalf Shift, whole shift and double shift noted. [ violin position shifts?]
\nThe Duke of York\u2019s march
\nA Hornpipe
\nA Reel
\nA Hornpipe[noted]
\nReel
\nStrathspey
\nHorsman Hornpipe
\nRoyal Strathspey and Reel
\nSpring Gardens Hornpipe
\nRecovery Hornpipe [AGG has underlined Recovery)
\nDalston Forge \u2013 a hornpipe by Wm Adams
\nA Strathspey
\nLatrigg Side \u2013 a hornpipe by Wm Irwin
\nAlso a quadrille(6\/8) \u201ctaken from the above\u201d by W.I. [not noted.CGP]
\nBriggham Hornpipe \u2013 by Wm Irwin
\nMiss Greenup\u2019s Strathspey
\nMiss Greenup\u2019s Reel
\nThe Charter Hornpipe
\nCasson or Cagson Hornpipe
\nMr Sitwell\u2019s Strathspey
\nMiss Gibson\u2019s Reel
\nThe Queen\u2019s Hornpipe
\nBonney Crossing the Alps \u2013 A hornpipe
\nRaughton Head \u2013 a hornpipe by J. Adams
\nA quadrille taken from the above(6\/8) by Wm Robinson
\nA Hornpipe
\nThe Banks of Burdisel [a hornpipe]
\nA Hornpipe
\nLord Bingham\u2019s Hornpipe
\nGriffon Hornpipe
\nChimney Sweep\u2019s Hornpipe
\nOmnebuss Hornpipe
\nDue Mungo and Princess Royal (not a good copy) in another hand with the queer clef in Irwin\u2019s other MS
\nLondon Hornpipe
\nElterwater Hornpipe by Wm Irwin
\nElterwater Quickstep by Wm Irwin
\nScant of Silver
\nOrton Hornpipe by Wm Irwin
\nOrton Lodge a Quadrille by Wm Irwin
\nThe Hunchback
\nRose Quadrille ..A. Banks
\nMy Boy Tommey a strathspey
\nCasson Hornpipe composed by Casson, Wigton
\nLord Brougham\u2019s Hornpipe by Robert Stewartson
\nA Quadrille by Casson, Wigton
\nDr Stanley\u2019s Hornpipe
\nThrough the Wood Spinning
\nThe London Morgeanian
\nCircassian Circle a hornpipe
\nA Hornpipe
\nA Hornpipe as played at the theatre Carlisle
\nStage Hornpipe
\nA Grand Hornpipe (nothing to explain the title)
\nWe\u2019re A Noddin\u2019 (as usual)
\nMy Wife\u2019s a Wanton Wee Thing
\nA poor version of Miss Gayton\u2019s Hornpipe (Carlisle Book)
\nA collection of original tunes by James Porteus follows:
\nMiss Phillips Strathspey And Reel
\nMiss Bells dittoditto
\nMiss Mary Hay\u2019s Reel
\nWee Willie\u2019s Strathspey
\nMiss CB Grant\u2019s Reel
\n?Glancrosh\u2019s Strathspey
\nGlen Stewart
\nMiss Nicholson\u2019s
\nMiss Richardson\u2019s and Mrs Dunbar\u2019s Jigs
\nMiss Broadfoot\u2019s S & R
\nThe Lough Pool
\nMiss Gibbon\u2019s Reel
\nCapt. Sharp\u2019s R
\nMiss Duglass S&R
\nMiss Jane Johnston\u2019s S&R
\nThe Braes of Warhope S&R
\nMiss A Jordan\u2019s S&R
\nLieutenant Charles Clapperton\u2019s Jig etc etc
\nA Parody on miss Johnston\u2019s Strathspey etcetc
\nJames Porteus\u2019 Farewell to Whisky(slowish)ditto fiddle
\nMrs Hope Johnston\u2019s Strathspey, Reel
\n?Netherby House a strathspey
\nLady May Lowther\u2019s R
\nThe Countess of Lonsdale\u2019s S&R
\nA Trip To ?Jardine Hall
\nJames Porteus\u2019 Dusting Sieve
\nJames Porteus\u2019 Lamentation For Old Dr Clapperton
\nJames Porteus\u2019 Lamentation For Old Dr Clapperton
\nA Hornpipe
\nEnd of Porteus Section
\nThe Old Spedlings Castle Ghosts Dance transferred to Wm Irwin\u2019s Folio MS
\nWee Willie\u2019s Strathspey composed by the authors son only 9 yrs of age
\nMiss richardson\u2019s Jig
\nWee Annie\u2019s Hornpipe
\nThere are only two hornpipes in the whole of the Porteus coll. Both are given here. [where?]
\nMinuette by Wm Irwin
\nThe celebrated Cuckoo Solo by Vivaldi with a variation Solo by Wm Irwin [!],Keswick. Very little suggestion of a cuckoo.
\nSix Airs for the violin by Henry ?Tilbary
\n(One of the others is The Moonlit Bower, another Waltz by Weippart
\nA March by Wm Robinson \u2018vivace and sweet\u2019
\nThe Schottische (the first in the collection) \u2018this is played rather slower than the Polka\u2019
\nThe Bloomers Polka
\nThe Drum Polka
\nA Polka turned into a Quadrille(6\/8) by Wm Irwin \u2018the above as a quadrille\u2019
\nAlso \u2018Aria written for Paganini by ?Mayseder\u2019
\nCome Again O Pescator from ?Lowell Mason\u2019s Song Book For The School Room
\nMr Irwin\u2019s Favourite Waltz by Wm Robinson
\nThe Schottische
\nA Polka Follows
\nAnd then a Waltz By Strauss
\nThe Bloomers Polka
\nCroppies Lie Down
\nThe New Bridge of Glasgow \u2018first printed in 1850 composed by T Porteus\u2019 cf Levie Gordon
\nGreig\u2019s Strathspey-Nathaniel Gow\u2019s Favourite \u2018Nathaniel Gow said of this tune \u201cIt is the first Strathspey that ever was penned
\nThe Queen\u2019s Triumph by Hugh Gilmore (Reel)
\nThe Queen\u2019s Jig ditto
\nSpeed The Plough by John Moorhead 1800
\nA Quadrille by Wm Irwin
\nBonnie Dundee
\nGreig\u2019s Strathspey
\nSherriff Muir 2nd set from Gow\u2019s Coll.
\nHewitson\u2019s Hornpipe by S.W. Wigton Cumberland
\nMaid of Isla
\nThe Kaffer\u2019s Polka
\nScotch Hornpipe by Wm Irwin [very Scotch snappy but not very Scotch]
\nThe Cuckoo\u2019s Hornpipe [Wm. I]
\nA Quadrille by Wm Irwin with a Minore strain
\nA Polka [King Pippin]
\nA March, Napoleon\u2019s
\nA Hornpipe, The Rights of Man
\nThe 4th dragoons march
\nLea Riggs with variations
\nA Hornpipe by Wm Irwin
\nA March Napoleaon\u2019s
\nSummer is Coming \u2018a splendid reel\u2019
\nGeneral Jackson
\nThe Golden Stream Varsoviana, Montgomery
\nVarsovianas begin here in the MS, by Montgomery, H Farmer and Strauss
\nSir Roger De Coverley [as usual]
\nMontgomery\u2019s \u2018Silver Lake\u2019 Varsoviana is the only opne I know
\nLaughing Gallop
\nBridal Waltz Julien
\nAnni Schottische
\nVarious Schottisches including The Ranelagh by E Fitzwilliam
\nAnd The Corsair
\nVarious Mazurkas including The Rose of Castille by montgomery
\nAnd la ?Calamaica ditto
\nPrince Imperial Gallop
\nThe Lal(Little) Scottische by Wm Irwin
\nChristmas Comes But Once A Year (Greensleeves) \u2013 Old English Dance
\nImitation of Bagpipes on the violin
\nThe Lads of Dunce- very like copy in Kershaw \u2013 Dunce Dings A\u2019
\nMiss Ann\u2019s Hornpipe
\nBuchers (?Butchers) Hornpipe
\nPatronello a country dance
\nHere\u2019s a Health to All Good Lasses \u2013 arr. For violin and flute duet [but not transcribed so]
\nPotabellow Hornpipe
\nThe Miller of Drone \u2013 strathspey
\nGreen Grows The Rushes O \u2013 reel
\nHornpipe cf Lancashire Hp
\nCameron has got his Wife again \u2013 see under there\u2019s nae luck Kershaw MS
\nThe Twelfth of August or Peter Wren\u2019s Hp
\nMorgeana in Ireland see Kershaw\u2019s MS
\nRory O More the ?\u2026 ? from ?Irish airs
\n\u201cBy Parker of Penrith\u201d at the bottom of the page, perhaps refers to a variation of the last Air
\nGarrick\u2019s Hornpipe and other tunes in the oblong MS
\nRobinson Hornpipe [Mountain or Man?]
\nHope\u2019s Hornpipe
\nHarding\u2019s Hornpipe
\nThe Original Varsoviana
\nFragment of Silver Lake
\nThe Triumph a country dance
\nStar of the Ball Redowa by Montgomery
\nHornpipe (Modal)
\nWhen Arthur first in Kirk began to wear long hanging sleeves (in good king arthur\u2019s day)
\nBannister Hornpipe
\nLancaster Hornpipe
\nIron Legs a Hornpipe
\nManchester Hornpipe
\nHaste to the wedding much as usual
\nBasset\u2019s Lasses
\nA Hornpipe by Wm Garret\/Garnet
\nDurham Hornpipe (see end of Wm Irwin oblong MS)
\nThe Cacoucha A Spanish Valse (bound up at the end)
\nChappel Hornpipe
\nEND OF AGG\u2019S TRANSCRIPTION OF THE WM IRWIN FOLIO MS.
\nThere are approximately 210 tunes referred to by name in AGG\u2019s notes to the Wm Irwin Folio MS, of which she has transcribed 68.
\n.AGG evidently had access to them in the early\/mid 20th C (?), when she made these partial transcriptions.
\nSubsequent enquiry has failed to reveal their present whereabouts.
\nHer notes to the \u201c1838 MS\u201d specifically mention there being 312 tunes, of which she names only 150, and the \u201cFolio MS\u201d notes name at least 210 titles from an unknown total, so there are\/were at least 512 tunes in the original MSs of which we still have 108.<\/p>\n
In 1939 A.G.G. wrote an article about Lake District musicians.
\n\u201cSome Old Lake Country Fiddlers and their Tune Books\u201d by Anne Geddes Gilchrist. from The Journal of The Lakeland Dialect Society, Issue No.1, November 1939, p16.
\nAfter writing about William Irwin and then Henry Stables (as Irwin\u2019s pupil) she says:-
\n\u201cAnother old fiddler\u2019s book in my possession is that of Matthew Betham\u201d.
\nIt is not exactly clear whether she is implying that she owns both Stables and Irwin\u2019s books or just that of Henry Stables, or that she has merely borrowed them from the families or indeed from Frank Kidson\u2019s collection. It is clear however that she is talking, in 1939, about the actual MSS and not her transcriptions, for she mentions the tunes Bonny Cumberland and Bonny Westmorland, and neither tune appears in her transcription. (see above).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1..William Irwin\u2019s Manuscript Tune Book, 1838 Acc. No. QM 9732 Partial Transcription by Anne Geddes Gilchrist. Filed with the Anne Geddes Gilchrist Manuscript Collection, AGG\/2\/137, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park, London. Transcribed into ABC with the suffix \u201cWI.xxx\u201d, and these notes, by Chris Partington, 2005 The original MS has not been … Continue reading IRWIN, Wm ms INFO<\/span>