Annotation:Flora's Birthday
X: 10672 T: FLORA'S BIRTHDAY C: %R: jig B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 1 1842 p.67 #2 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A |\ f2f fed | a2a agf | bag fed | cde A2A | f2f fed | a2a agf | egb cde | d2f d2 :| |: (c/d/) |\ e2e age | d2d dfa | geg fdf | (f3 e2) (f/g/) | a2a afa | b2b bd'b | afa gec | d2f d2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
FLORA'S BIRTHDAY. American, Jig (6/8 time). C Major (Howe/1843): D Major (Howe/1867, O'Flannagan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appaers in a number of Boston publisher Elias Howe's publications, including his 1860 volume by Patrick O'Flannagan (Hibernia Collection), indicating that the tune may have an Irish provenance. The melody was entered as a duet into the music manuscript collection of American musician M.E. Eames, dated Aug. 22nd, 1859 (Eames was probably from Philadelphia, Pa.).
