the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

worldwide traditions

Canada

Canada

1812 patriotic song:
'Hull's Incursion into Canada,'
“Come, tune up and summon, with pipe and with tabor,
Sweet Echo to sound a Salute to Our Neighbour,
Whom Nap, the Destroyer of peace and good Order,
Persuaded to make an Attack on our Border….”

A COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF JONATHAN ODELL WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by JOAN JOHNSTON ANDERSON page 23

1814 satire:
'A SECOND SALUTE TO NEIGHBOUR MADISON'
“Once more let us summon, with pipe and with tabor,
Sweet Echo, to sound a Salute to our Neighbour,
Whom Nap, the Destroyer of peace and good Order,
Set on to invade our Canadian Border.
Impell'd by the foe to all peace and good Order,
Neighbour Madison rashly invaded our Border….”

A COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF JONATHAN ODELL WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by JOAN JOHNSTON ANDERSON page 119
JOhn Galt Poem‘The Collected Poems of John Galt,’ 1779-1839, vol II
1888 Ye Greate Arte Fayre Toronto - ‘The Piper ... Mr Stuart Morrison’1888Toronto Daily Mail - Thursday 17 May 1888
1901 poem 1901'The Downing legends, stories in rhyme' by De Forest, John William

1901-1942 Toronto textbook poem: ‘The Procession of the Flowers’ by Sydney Dobell:P
“…As the happy people come
When the war has roll’d away,
With dance and tabor, pipe and drum,
And all make holiday….”

Folder 143 — Textbooks — Margaret Eaton School Toronto 1901-1942

1968 poem
  “…The lights are dimmed, shocked shades no longer moan,
Stilled the rude roaring of the saxophone;
The song is done, the poet makes his bow,
Then makes an end, cease pipe and tabor now….”

‘Old Times’, January 1968

1972 ‘AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ELIZABETH being A Most Excellent Princely Maske of the Seven
Motions orTerpsichore Unchain‘d’

MUSICIANS OF THE CONSORT included Shelley Gruskin who played Flute, recorder, crumhorn,
pipe & tabor amongst other instruments.

‘An entertainment for Elizabeth : a Renaissance spectacle with singers, dancers and instrumentalists’by University of Toronto. Faculty of Music

1929 newspaper article 1929The Carbon chronicle (1929-10-10) 19291929 Joan Sharp
19841984 Ontario
Ian Morrison
with Marlboro Men


Canada 21st century21st century Canada

 

20072007 Orange Peel Morris, Ontario
CanadaNorman Stanfield,
British Columbia, Canada

2007 Norman Stanfield
  “…The Morris Men were performing
during the fair and met Norman Stanfield,
one of only a handful of North American
musicians who played the pipe and tabor,
an original Morris dancing accompaniment. Stanfield … introduced them to Mummer plays….”

‘Canadian Consulting Engineer’, 2007, Vol.48 (6), p.98

20232023 Annette Bauer Montreal

20232023 Ellis Montes Montreal

   
 

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