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'''FREE MASONS [2]'''. AKA - "Free Mason's March." AKA and see "[[Clegg Lane]]," "[[Come Let Us Prepare]]." English, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The second strain bears some resemblance at the end to "[[Irish Washerwoman (The)]]." A tune by this title appears listed in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance manuscript, but is one of the "missing tunes." According to Henry Evans ('''Masonry and Magic in the 18th Century'''), Freemansonry in 18th century England was frankly humanitarian and convivial, with business being swiftly concluded the assembly thereafter smoking churchwarden pipes, emptying bowls of bishop, singing songs and glees, and speechifying. Although the English Masons traced their roots rather benignly to the medieval building guilds, on the Continent the order took on a much more mystical and sinister aspect, with claims attempting to tie it to ancient and obscure Egyptian mysteries. | '''FREE MASONS [2]'''. AKA - "Free Mason's March." AKA and see "[[Clegg Lane]]," "[[Come Let Us Prepare]], "[[Free Mason's Health]]." English, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The second strain bears some resemblance at the end to "[[Irish Washerwoman (The)]]." A tune by this title appears listed in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance manuscript, but is one of the "missing tunes." According to Henry Evans ('''Masonry and Magic in the 18th Century'''), Freemansonry in 18th century England was frankly humanitarian and convivial, with business being swiftly concluded the assembly thereafter smoking churchwarden pipes, emptying bowls of bishop, singing songs and glees, and speechifying. Although the English Masons traced their roots rather benignly to the medieval building guilds, on the Continent the order took on a much more mystical and sinister aspect, with claims attempting to tie it to ancient and obscure Egyptian mysteries. | ||
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The march was also entered (as "Free Masons March") into the c. 1776-1778 music copybook of fifer Thomas Nixon Jr. [http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/e40092b.htm] (1762-1842), of Framingham, Connecticut. Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession. American flute player Henry Livingston entered it into his music copybook as "[[Free Mason's Health]]." | |||
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FREE MASONS [2]. AKA - "Free Mason's March." AKA and see "Clegg Lane," "Come Let Us Prepare, "Free Mason's Health." English, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The second strain bears some resemblance at the end to "Irish Washerwoman (The)." A tune by this title appears listed in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance manuscript, but is one of the "missing tunes." According to Henry Evans (Masonry and Magic in the 18th Century), Freemansonry in 18th century England was frankly humanitarian and convivial, with business being swiftly concluded the assembly thereafter smoking churchwarden pipes, emptying bowls of bishop, singing songs and glees, and speechifying. Although the English Masons traced their roots rather benignly to the medieval building guilds, on the Continent the order took on a much more mystical and sinister aspect, with claims attempting to tie it to ancient and obscure Egyptian mysteries.
The march was also entered (as "Free Masons March") into the c. 1776-1778 music copybook of fifer Thomas Nixon Jr. [1] (1762-1842), of Framingham, Connecticut. Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession. American flute player Henry Livingston entered it into his music copybook as "Free Mason's Health."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; p. 60. Howe (First Part of the Musician's Companion), 1842; p. 12. Trim (Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 34.
Recorded sources: