Annotation:Poor Soldier (1) (The)

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POOR SOLDIER [1], THE. English, Jig. England, Dorset. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The Poor Soldier is the name of a two-act comic opera that was immensely popular in Britain, Ireland, and even the United States. The play was by John O’Keefe, but music was composed and arranged by William Shield. The finale of the work showcases a tune by the blind Irish harper Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738), “John O'Connor” (“Planxty Mrs. O’Conor”). An early publication of the tune appears in 1799 by Thomas Calvert, a musician from Kelso, Scotland. A note with his collection states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Trim (Musical Legacy of Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 93.

Recorded sources:



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