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'''LORD CATHCART.''' AKA - "[[Lord Cathcart's Favourite]]." English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lord Cathcart," or "Lord Cathcart's Welcome Home," is a composition by Haydn, or perhaps adapted by Haydn, and employed in his 'Military' Symphony No. 100, which debuted on the occasion of his second visit to London. The '''Morning Chronicle''' reported a week after is premiere: | '''LORD CATHCART.''' AKA - "[[Lord Cathcart's Favourite]]." English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lord Cathcart," or "Lord Cathcart's Welcome Home," is a composition by Haydn, or perhaps adapted by Haydn, and employed in his 'Military' Symphony No. 100, which debuted on the occasion of his second visit to London. The '''Morning Chronicle''' reported a week after is premiere: | ||
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LORD CATHCART. AKA - "Lord Cathcart's Favourite." English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lord Cathcart," or "Lord Cathcart's Welcome Home," is a composition by Haydn, or perhaps adapted by Haydn, and employed in his 'Military' Symphony No. 100, which debuted on the occasion of his second visit to London. The Morning Chronicle reported a week after is premiere:
Another new Symphony, by Hadyn, was performed for the second time; and the middle movement was again received with absolute shouts of applause. Encore! encore! encore! resounded from every seat: the Ladies themselves could not forbear. It is the advancing to battle; and the march of men, the sounding of the charge, the clash of arms, the groans of the wounded, and what may well be called the hellish roar of war increase to a climax of horrid sublimity! which, if others can conceive, he alone can execute; at least, he alone hitherto has effected these wonders.
It was wildly popular, and Haydn and his orchestra performed it often during the visit, including during his last London benefit of May, 1795. The melody of "Lord Cathcart" appears as the main theme of the final movement, the Finale, a piece so popular that it became detached from the symphony and was often played by itself as the closing piece of a concert. It became so familiar that it was absorbed into country dance tradition.
In America the melody appears in George Willig's Collection of Popular Country Dances, No. 1 (Philadelphia, 1812) and the first volume of Edward Riley's Flute Melodies (New York, 1814). Middletown, Conn., fifer Gerge Bevens included it in his commonplace book of 1825. It also appears in Balls' Gentleman's Amusement Book 3 (London, 1815), a publication later reissued in London and Philadelphia in 1830.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Colclough (Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes), c. 1830; p. 14.
Recorded sources:
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