View source for Annotation:Life Let Us Cherish

=='''Back to [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]'''==
----
<p><font face="sans-serif" size="4">
'''LIFE LET US CHERISH.''' AKA and see "[[Butterfly Waltz]]." Scottish, English, American; Air and Waltz. Standard tuning (fiddler). G Major (Ashman, Colclough, Kerr): C Major (Howe): D Major (Silberberg). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Silberberg): AAB. The melody was originally a song air called "Freut Euch des Lebens" (Come Let Us be Joyful), composed in Switzerland in 1795 by Hans Georg Nageli with words by poet Johann Martin Usteri (1763-1827). It was adapted in English as "Life Let Us Cherish" and became an enormously popular air in Britain and America, where it served as a waltz (see "[[Butterfly Waltz]]") as well as an air, and was the tune usually used for the Basket figure of the popular quadrille or square dance.
<blockquote>
''Life let us cherish while yet the taper glows, ''<br>
''And the fresh flower pluck ere it close; ''<br>
''Why are ye fond of toil and care,''<br>
''Why choose the rankling torn to wear,''<br>
''And heedless by the lily stray,''<br>
''Which blossoms in our way.''<br>
</blockquote>
The air was entered into many 19th century musicians' manuscript collections, including those of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (1840, Waverton, Cumbria), James Winder (Lancashire, 1835-41), Eben and William Irving (Middletown, N.Y.), and George White (Cherry Valley, N.Y.). 
<br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="sans-serif" size="4">
''Source for notated version'': a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman]. 
<br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="sans-serif" size="4">
''Printed sources'': Ashman ('''The Ironbridge Hornpipe'''), 1991; No. 111b, p. 46. Colclough ('''Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes'''), c. 1830; p. 12. Howe ('''Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon'''), 1843; p. 6. Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 3'''), c. 1880's; No. 291, p. 32. Silberberg ('''93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern'''), 2004; p. 26.
<br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="sans-serif" size="4">
''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Voyager 358, New Columbia Fiddlers - "Fiddle Tunes of the Lewis and Clark Era" (2002. Appears as "Freut Euch des Lebens"). Voyager CD 353, Billy Lee - "Up Jumped the Devil"</font>
</font></p>
<br>
<br>
----
=='''Back to [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]'''==