Bridge of Lodi (The)

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Theme code Index	11H1H7 2H51H1H
Also known as	Bridge at Lodi (The), Down Back o' Shoddy, Hell on the Potomac (3), Hunter's Hornpipe (1), Huntsman's Hornpipe, Lochmaben Hornpipe (The), Lord Nelson's Hornpipe, Nelson's Hornpipe (2), Saxon's Hornpipe, Worcestershire Hornpipe
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Region	England, Scotland
Genre/Style	English, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Hornpipe/Clog
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
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BRIDGE OF/AT LODI, THE. AKA and see "Down Back o' Shoddy," "Hell on the Potomac [3]," "Hunter's Hornpipe [1]," "Huntsman's Hornpipe," "The Lochmaben Hornpipe," "Lord Nelson's Hornpipe," "Nelson's (Hornpipe) [2]," "Saxon's Hornpipe," "Worcestershire Hornpipe." Scottish, English; Hornpipe. C Major (Carlin): D Major (Raven). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A very popular hornpipe melody that exists in early 19th century musicians' copybooks under a variety of titles. It was printed under the 'Lodi' title in London in J. Ball's Gentleman's Amusement, Book 3 (1815), and in dancing master Thomas Wilson's Companion to the Ballroom (1816). In America it appears in Paff's Gentleman's Amusement No. 1 (N.Y. c. 1812) and the music copybooks of P. Van Schaack (1820, Kinderhook, N.Y.) and William Patten (Philadelphia, Pa.?, 1800?).

The Bridge of Lodi was the site of one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories in Italy, early in his career. The melody appears under this title in the music manuscripts of William Clarke (Feltwell, Norfolk) dated 1858. Dorset writer Thomas Hardy wrote a poem called "The Bridge of Lodi," inspired twofold by the hornpipe and by a trip to Italy in the Spring of 1887. The first two stanzas begin:

When of tender mind and body,
I was moved by minstrelsy,
And that air "The Bridge of Lodi"
Brought a strange delight to me.

In the battle-breathing jingle
Of its forward-footing tune
I could see the armies mingle,
And the columns crushed and hewn.

Printed souce: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; p. 99 (#170). Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 163. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1816; p. 132.

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