Annotation:Maid of Judah (The)

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MAID OF JUDAH, THE. English, Air (4/4 time). England, Shropshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Maid of Judah, or Knights Templars was the name of an opera arranged and adapted to the English stage by Michael Rophino Lacy (1795-1867), from the original pasticcio Ivanhoe, by the Italian composer Rossini. Lacy's adaptation was staged at the Theater Royal, Covent Garden, in 1829, while Rossini's opera premiered in Paris in 1826. The Maid of Judah refers to the character Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York, in Sir Walter Scott's widely popular book Ivanhoe (Scott himself was in the audience in Paris for the debut of Rossini's opera). "Maid of Judah" was a popular name in mid-19th century and was attached, for example, to a clipper ship, part of the Aberdeen Star Line, and an Australian gold mine.

Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].

Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 48, p. 18.

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