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WHY SHOULD I NOT LIKE MY LOVE? English, Scottish; Air (9/8). England, Northumberland. A Minor (Aird): G Dorian (Young). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was entered into the large music manuscript collection of Scottish musician and dancing master David Young, called The MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740), "Written for the use of Walter Mcfarlan of that ilk." The melody is contained in the music copybook [1] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with British army's 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (so designated in the army reorganization of 1782), who served from 1797-1814. Later in life Buttery emigrated to Canada, where he died. In his manuscript Buttery identifies the tune as "A Retreat", which in military use represents the musical announcement of the end of the day's activities and a time for rest. The operant condition for a retreat was a specific drum roll, over which a melody--any melody--could be played, and it was the drum roll (not the tune) that was the musical signal for a retreat. The Buttery manuscript, as well as other period military manuscripts, often include a variety tunes that are labelled 'Retreats', which were selections the musician employed for the duty. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife ^[1], with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. The title (as “Why Should I Not Love My Love”) appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800. There is a song called "Came you not from Newcastle?" that goes:

Came you not from Newcastle?
Came you not there away?
O met you not my true love
Riding on a bonny bay?
Why should I not love my love?
Why should not my love love me?
Why should I love not my love?
Because my love loves me.

A duple-time air was printed with the song in Sabine Baring Gould's Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie (1895), but that melody is a version of John Playford's "Newcastle (1)," from the English Dancing Master (1651).

X:1
T:Came you not from Newcastle?
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Baring Gould - Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie (1895)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:F
AA c2 F2G2|(F3G) F2 z2|A A c2F2c2|(f2f4) (ed)|
c2A2G2F2|D2d4 c B |c2A2 G3F|F4 z2|
f (de)|e (dc) f2A2|(G2f4) G2|F2 F G A2E2|(D2 d4) e2|
fe (dB) f2A2|(G2A2B3)c|d2A2 G3F|F8||

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 149, p. 55.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
See a standard notation transcription of the melody from David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740) [2]

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↑ Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm

[1] Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm

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-'''WHY SHOULD I NOT LIKE MY LOVE?'''  English, Scottish; Air (9/8). England, Northumberland. A Minor (Aird): G Dorian (Young). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was entered into the large music manuscript collection of Scottish musician and dancing master David Young, called '''The MacFarlane Manuscript''' (c. 1740), "Written for the use of Walter Mcfarlan of that ilk." It also was included in the c. 1790 music copybook of John Fife, who may have been from Perthshire (and whose MS also contains references to battles on the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and thus may have been written at sea). The title (as “Why Should I Not Love My Love”) appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800. There is a song called "Came you not from Newcastle?" that goes:
+'''WHY SHOULD I NOT LIKE MY LOVE?'''  English, Scottish; Air (9/8). England, Northumberland. A Minor (Aird): G Dorian (Young). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was entered into the large music manuscript collection of Scottish musician and dancing master David Young, called '''The MacFarlane Manuscript''' (c. 1740), "Written for the use of Walter Mcfarlan of that ilk." The melody is contained in the music copybook [https://buttreymilitarysocialtunes1800.wordpress.com/melodies/] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with British army's 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (so designated in the army reorganization of 1782), who served from 1797-1814. Later in life Buttery emigrated to Canada, where he died. In his manuscript Buttery identifies the tune as "A Retreat", which in military use represents the musical announcement of the end of the day's activities and a time for rest. The operant condition for a retreat was a specific drum roll, over which a melody--any melody--could be played, and it was the drum roll (not the tune) that was the musical signal for a retreat. The Buttery manuscript, as well as other period military manuscripts, often include a variety tunes that are labelled 'Retreats', which were selections the musician employed for the duty. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife <ref>Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm</ref>, with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript.
+The title (as “Why Should I Not Love My Love”) appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800. There is a song called "Came you not from Newcastle?" that goes:
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