Come Haste to the Wedding

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Also known as	Haste to the Wedding (1)
Composer/Core Source
Region	England, Ireland, United States
Genre/Style	Contra, English, Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History	USA(New England)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Eloise Hubbard Linscott
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Folk Songs of Old New England
Tune and/or Page number	p. 87
Year of publication/Date of MS	1939
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COME HASTE TO THE WEDDING. AKA and see "Haste to the Wedding (1)." Irish, English; Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The tune 'Come, Haste to the Wedding', of Gaelic origin, was introduced in the pantomime The Elopement in 1767. This version is known as the Manx tune and was printed by the Percy society in 1846. It is the basis for the Manx ballad, 'The Capture of Carrickfergusby,' written by Thurot in 1760 [Linscott]. The melody is widely known in the USA, particularly in New England where it has in the past been a staple of contra dances, although heard more infrequently today. It was collected from Buffalo Valley, Pa., dance fiddler Harry Daddario in the mid-20th century. Earlier in the same century it was one of the tunes associated with the dance "Lady in the Lake" in N.H. [Linscott]. See note for "Talk:Haste to the Wedding (1)" for more.

Sources for notated versions: Smith Paine (Wolfboro, N.H.) [Linscott]; Joshua Cushing, The Fifer's Companion (Salem, Mass., 1804) [Mattson & Walz].

Printed sources: Linscott (Folk Songs of Old New England), 1939; p. 87. Mattson & Walz (Old Fort Snelling: Instruction Book for the Fife), 1974; p. 57. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 24.