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'''MAID OF LODI, THE.''' English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. One part. The music for "Maid of Lodi" was collected by English popular violinist and composer William Shield [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shield] while on a tour of Italy. It was a popular ballad in the first decades of the 19th century, a favorite of Byron and of Sir Walter Scott (according to Thomas Carlyle), that was frequently arranged in several forms for various instruments. | '''MAID OF LODI, THE.''' English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. One part. The music for "Maid of Lodi" was collected by English popular violinist and composer William Shield [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shield] while on a tour of Italy. It was a popular ballad in the first decades of the 19th century, a favorite of Byron and of Sir Walter Scott (according to Thomas Carlyle), that was frequently arranged in several forms for various instruments. | ||
[[File:shield.jpg|200px|thumb|left|William Shield (1748-1829)]] | [[File:shield.jpg|200px|thumb|left|William Shield (1748-1829)]] | ||
The tune was a favorite in America, and was frequently published. Carr (Philadelphia) published variations on "The Maid of Lodi" in his '''Applicazione addocita: Twelve Airs & Ground with Variations, or Arranged as Rondos in the Different Major & Minor Keys Chiefly in Use''' (1809). | |||
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MAID OF LODI, THE. English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. One part. The music for "Maid of Lodi" was collected by English popular violinist and composer William Shield [1] while on a tour of Italy. It was a popular ballad in the first decades of the 19th century, a favorite of Byron and of Sir Walter Scott (according to Thomas Carlyle), that was frequently arranged in several forms for various instruments.
The tune was a favorite in America, and was frequently published. Carr (Philadelphia) published variations on "The Maid of Lodi" in his Applicazione addocita: Twelve Airs & Ground with Variations, or Arranged as Rondos in the Different Major & Minor Keys Chiefly in Use (1809).
Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman]; the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 42, p. 15. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 92. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 68 (appears as "Maid of Lodia," originally set in the key of 'C' major in the ms.).
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