Annotation:Maid of Lodi

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MAID OF LODI, THE. English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. One part. The music for "Maid of Lodi" was collected by English popular violinist and composer William Shield [1] while on a tour of Italy. It was a popular ballad in the first decades of the 19th century, a favorite of Byron and of Sir Walter Scott (according to Thomas Carlyle), that was frequently arranged in several forms for various instruments.

Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman]; the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 42, p. 15. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 92. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 68 (appears as "Maid of Lodia," originally set in the key of 'C' major in the ms.).

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