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The Jenny Jones of the title was said to have been a dairymaid at Pontblyddin Farm, who fell in love with a ploughman named Edward Morgan. Edward went to sea and spent twenty years in the Navy, however, he returned to marry Jenny.

The story entranced actor Charles James Mathews, who visited Wales around 1825 and actually met the Morgans and heard their story first-hand. During his trip he heard a harper play Parry’s melody in the hotel he was staying at in Llangollen, and memorized it, not knowing who composed it.

He was inspired to write a song about the Morgans to the melody, called “Song of Jenny Jones and Ned Morgan,” and performed it for friends in London when he returned. At the end of the evening’s entertainment an elderly gentleman approached him and claimed it was he who originally wrote the tune.

It was called “Cader Idris,” the old man—Bardd Alaw himself—said, and it had won him a prize at the 1804 Eisteddfod. Mathews continued to perform the song which caught on immediately. It struck a romantic chord, and was popular for nearly two decades, enough to generate other ‘Jenny Jones’ songs and parodies.

Figures of Jenny Jones were fashioned in chinaware, horse-brasses, and other items.

...more at: Sweet Jenny Jones - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:123 T:Jenny Jones M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Waltz S:Kerr - Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 307 (c. 1880's) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G V:1 clef=treble name="123." [V:1] d2 | g2d2B2 | G3AB2 | c2e2a2 | f2d2(ef) | g2d2B2 | c3de2 | d2g2f2 | g4d2 | g2d2B2 | G3AB2 | c2e2a2 | f2d2(ef) | g2d2B2 | c3de2 | d2g2f2 | g2z2 || g2 | b2g2b2 | a2f2a2 | g2e2a2 | f2d2g2 | b2g2b2 | a2f2a2 | g2f2e2 | d2e2f2 | g2d2B2 | G3AB2 | c2e2a2 | f2d2(ef) | g2d2B2 | c3de2 | d2g2f2 | g2z2 ||

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 {{SheetMusic
-|f_track=The Fox Chase.mp3
+|f_track=Cader Idris.mp3
-|f_pdf=Fox Chase.pdf
+|f_pdf=Caret Idris.pdf
-|f_artwork=Edmund_Keating_Hyland_plaque.jpg
+|f_artwork=JohnParry.png
-|f_tune_name=The Fox Chase
+|f_tune_name=Sweet Jenny Jones
-|f_track_title=Fox_Chase_(3)_(The)
+|f_track_title=Sweet Jenny Jones
 |f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/mhichealoriabhaigh Mhícheál Ó Riabhaigh]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/andrewcampling Andrew Campling]
-|f_notes=Keating Hyland plaque, Cahir
+|f_notes=Photo of John Parry, c. 1825 - commonly known by his bardic name Bardd Alaw
-|f_caption=The Fox Chase" is the tune by which every piper seems to have been judged, at least in the 19th century, when it was ubiquitous among pipers.
+|f_caption=Parry did much to promote and popularize Welsh music in England in both music hall and fashionable society settings, and he was very successful with this air which was immensely popular in 19th century England.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/mhichealoriabhaigh/the-fox-chase Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/andrewcampling/cader-idris Soundcloud]
 |f_pix=420
 |f_picpix=200
-|f_article=[[Fox_Chase_(3)_(The) | '''The Fox Chase''']]
+|f_article=[[Sweet Jenny Jones | '''Sweet Jenny Jones''']]
-A programatic piece replete with 'horns' and the 'cry of the hounds', 'death of the fox', and winds up with "[[Foxhunter's Jig (1) (The)]]."
+The Jenny Jones of the title was said to have been a dairymaid at Pontblyddin Farm, who fell in love with a ploughman named Edward Morgan. Edward went to sea and spent twenty years in the Navy, however, he returned to marry Jenny.
-Some sections are variously in 3/4, 6/8 and 9/8 time. This "Fox Chase" was composed around 1799 by celebrated blind Co. Tipperary piper Edward Keating Hyland (1780-1845), who once received a set of expensive pipes from King George IV of England (who heard the piper while visiting Dublin in 1821) as a mark of recognition for his performance, according to Irish antiquarian Gratten Flood.
+The story entranced actor Charles James Mathews, who visited Wales around 1825 and actually met the Morgans and heard their story first-hand. During his trip he heard a harper play Parry’s melody in the hotel he was staying at in Llangollen, and memorized it, not knowing who composed it.
-It is the model for the Scottish "[[Hunting of the Fox (The)]]," but Hyland based his piece on an older (though short, eight-bar) song called "[[Maidrin Ruadh (An)]]" ([[Modhereen rua]]), which is based on a dialogue between a farmer and a fox which he had detected "with the goods" on him in the form of "a fine fat goose."
+He was inspired to write a song about the Morgans to the melody, called “Song of Jenny Jones and Ned Morgan,” and performed it for friends in London when he returned. At the end of the evening’s entertainment an elderly gentleman approached him and claimed it was he who originally wrote the tune.
-The piper's piece concludes with the well-known slip jig "[[Foxhunter's Jig (1) (The)]]." Hyland's version, the first full version, appears in O'Farrell's '''Pocket Companion of the Irish or Union Pipes''' (vol. 1, book 2, c. 1806) {under the title "[[Irish Fox Hunt (The)]]"}. Hyland was no simple country piper, but an individual who studied harmony under Thomas Moore’s musical collaborator, Sir John Stevenson.
+It was called “Cader Idris,” the old man—Bardd Alaw himself—said, and it had won him a prize at the 1804 Eisteddfod. Mathews continued to perform the song which caught on immediately. It struck a romantic chord, and was popular for nearly two decades, enough to generate other ‘Jenny Jones’ songs and parodies.
-O'Neill (1913) also prints two MS versions of the tune, one from Henry Hudson, c. 1841, and the other from Prof. P.H. Griffith of Dublin--the latter being a Tipperary version. Knowles (1995) finds parts of "The Fox Chase" in an anonymous 18th century English manuscript, in which it is entitled "Foxhunter Hornpipe (The)," and calls it "certainly the oldest known version" of the tune.
+Figures of Jenny Jones were fashioned in chinaware, horse-brasses, and other items.
 }}