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MORGIANA IN IRELAND. AKA – "Captain Mulligan." Irish, Set Dance; English, Jig. A Major (O'Neill, Raven, Roche): B Flat Major (Kershaw): G Major (O'Farrell, Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Raven, Sumner): AABB (Roche): AABBCC (Kershaw, O'Farrell). The Morgiania tunes were thought to have derived from Richard Sheridan's The Forty Thieves: A Grand Melo-Dramatic Romance (1806), music by Michael Kelly. However, "Morgiana" AKA "Morgiana in England" was first published in Joshua Campbell's A Collection of New Reels (Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1786, p. 74), so it would seem that the Morgiana trope was current a generation prior to Sheridan's play. In addition to the copybooks of Kershaw and Gibbons (referenced below) the melody can also be found in the music manuscripts of John Clare (Helpston, Northants, 1820), Rev. Robert Harrison (Brampton, Cumbria, 1820), Miss Best (unknown, c. 1850), C.J. Surtees (Northumberland, 1819), Thomas Shoosmith (Arlington, Sussex, early 19th c.), and Edward Russell (Monmouth, Wales, 1812). In print it appears in a small folio issued by Nathaniel Gow in Edinburgh in 1810, and in J. Balls' Gentleman's Amusement book 3 (London, c. 1815, reprinted c. 1830), Firth & Hall's Newly Improved Instuctor for the Clarinet (New York, 1832), Paff's Gentleman's Amusement No. 2 (New York, c. 1812), and Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 3 (New York, c. 1820). In the latter volume it appears as "Morgiana" with the alternate title "Capt'n Muligan" (Captain Mulligan). Aloys Fleischmann finds the first appearance in print to be in Edmund Lee's Lee's Collection of Country Dances for the present year (Dublin, c. 1795), although Fleischmann believes the volume is "misdated and should be ascribed to c. 1810."

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Nathaniel Gow (Morgiana in Ireland ... and Aldridge's Highland Laddie ... To which are added four other dances), 1810. P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs, vol. 2), 1858; No. 191, p. 86. Hime (Second Collection of Country Dances for 1810, No. 6), Dublin, 1810; p. 2. Knowles (The Joseph Kershaw Manuscript), 1993; No. 28. Abraham Mackintosh (Morgiana in Ireland, and Five Other Dance Tunes). O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 3), c. 1808; p. 7. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 86. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 128. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2), 1912; No. 283, p. 34. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 69 (originally set in the key of 'C' major).

See also listing at :
See sheet music for an early 19th century song, "Lavender Girl", set to the tune; at the Levy Collection [1]
See an anonymous Northumbrian musician's manuscript copy of the tune at FARNE [2] (where the notes say it was composed by Nathaniel Gow).

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-|f_annotation='''MORGIANA IN IRELAND.''' AKA – "[[Captain Mulligan]]." AKA and see "[[Lavender Girl (The)]]." Irish, Set Dance; English, Jig. A Major (O'Neill, Raven, Roche): B Flat Major (Kershaw): G Major (O'Farrell, Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Raven, Sumner): AABB (Roche): AABBCC (Kershaw, O'Farrell). The Morgiania tunes were thought to have derived from Richard Sheridan's '''The Forty Thieves: A Grand Melo-Dramatic Romance''' (1806), music by Michael Kelly. However, "[[Morgiana]]" AKA "[[Morgiana in England]]" was first published in Joshua Campbell's '''A Collection of New Reels''' (Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1786, p. 74), so it would seem that the Morgiana trope was current a generation prior to Sheridan's play.  In addition to the copybooks of Kershaw and Gibbons (referenced below) the melody can also be found in the music manuscripts of John Clare (Helpston, Northants, 1820), Rev. Robert Harrison (Brampton, Cumbria, 1820), Miss Best (unknown, c. 1850), C.J. Surtees (Northumberland, 1819), Thomas Shoosmith (Arlington, Sussex, early 19th c.), and Edward Russell (Monmouth, Wales, 1812). In print it appears in a small folio issued by Nathaniel Gow in Edinburgh in 1810, and in J. Balls' '''Gentleman's Amusement book 3''' (London, c. 1815, reprinted c. 1830), Firth & Hall's '''Newly Improved Instuctor for the Clarinet''' (New York, 1832), Paff's '''Gentleman's Amusement No. 2''' (New York, c. 1812), and '''Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 3''' (New York, c. 1820). In the latter volume it appears as "Morgiana" with the alternate title "Capt'n Muligan" ([[Captain Mulligan]]).  Aloys Fleischmann finds the first appearance in print to be in Edmund Lee's '''Lee's Collection of Country Dances for the present year''' (Dublin, c. 1795), although Fleischmann believes the volume is "misdated and should be ascribed to c. 1810." |f_sources_for_notated_versions=copied from O'Farrell's Pocket Companion (1804–10) [O'Neill]; contained in the Joseph Kershaw manuscript-Kershaw was a fiddler who lived in Slackcote, Saddleworth, North West England, in the 19th century, and his manuscript dates from around 1820 onwards [Kershaw]; the 1823–26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778–1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
+|f_annotation='''MORGIANA IN IRELAND.''' AKA – "[[Captain Mulligan]]." Irish, Set Dance; English, Jig. A Major (O'Neill, Raven, Roche): B Flat Major (Kershaw): G Major (O'Farrell, Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Raven, Sumner): AABB (Roche): AABBCC (Kershaw, O'Farrell). The Morgiania tunes were thought to have derived from Richard Sheridan's '''The Forty Thieves: A Grand Melo-Dramatic Romance''' (1806), music by Michael Kelly. However, "[[Morgiana]]" AKA "[[Morgiana in England]]" was first published in Joshua Campbell's '''A Collection of New Reels''' (Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1786, p. 74), so it would seem that the Morgiana trope was current a generation prior to Sheridan's play.  In addition to the copybooks of Kershaw and Gibbons (referenced below) the melody can also be found in the music manuscripts of John Clare (Helpston, Northants, 1820), Rev. Robert Harrison (Brampton, Cumbria, 1820), Miss Best (unknown, c. 1850), C.J. Surtees (Northumberland, 1819), Thomas Shoosmith (Arlington, Sussex, early 19th c.), and Edward Russell (Monmouth, Wales, 1812). In print it appears in a small folio issued by Nathaniel Gow in Edinburgh in 1810, and in J. Balls' '''Gentleman's Amusement book 3''' (London, c. 1815, reprinted c. 1830), Firth & Hall's '''Newly Improved Instuctor for the Clarinet''' (New York, 1832), Paff's '''Gentleman's Amusement No. 2''' (New York, c. 1812), and '''Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 3''' (New York, c. 1820). In the latter volume it appears as "Morgiana" with the alternate title "Capt'n Muligan" ([[Captain Mulligan]]).  Aloys Fleischmann finds the first appearance in print to be in Edmund Lee's '''Lee's Collection of Country Dances for the present year''' (Dublin, c. 1795), although Fleischmann believes the volume is "misdated and should be ascribed to c. 1810." |f_sources_for_notated_versions=copied from O'Farrell's Pocket Companion (1804–10) [O'Neill]; contained in the Joseph Kershaw manuscript-Kershaw was a fiddler who lived in Slackcote, Saddleworth, North West England, in the 19th century, and his manuscript dates from around 1820 onwards [Kershaw]; the 1823–26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778–1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
 |f_printed_sources=Nathaniel Gow ('''Morgiana in Ireland ... and Aldridge's Highland Laddie ... To which are added four other dances'''), 1810.
 P.M. Haverty ('''One Hundred Irish Airs, vol. 2'''), 1858; No. 191, p. 86.