world wide traditions
USA and Canada
Hawaii - Nose Flute |
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Native Amercian |
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USA literary history |
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1790 'The Rememberancer' in The Colonial Music Institute, Annapolis, Maryland "To sheep-shear, my boys! pipe and tabor strike up" |
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A PINKSTER ODE "The fiddles touch their sweetest strings,
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War of 1812: from the song 'The Patriotic Diggers' by Samuel Woodward. Men from all walks of life volunteered to join the army: "...How they break the soil! Brewers, butchers, bakers |
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1825: a small selection from a song: “I will sing of General Jackson/ |
1842 - The Recreations of Christopher North: Pseud. by John Wilson, page 156 “Even there Genius was happy, and diffused happiness; at its bidding was heard pipe, tabor, and dulcimer ; and to its lips " warbling melody" life floated by, in the midst of all oppression, a not undelightful dream !” |
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1858 THE O'LINCOLN FAMILY by Mr. Wilson Flagg " A flock of merry singing-birds were sporting in the grove; The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 |
1860 “While toward some devil's-dance,
we crane the neck, poem number 124 from Poems by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman’ |
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1865 "Come, tune up and summon, with pipe and with tabor", 'The Cheerless Condition of Bachelorship' by George Moses Horton |
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'Pipe and tabor' were sometimes used as titles to romantic poetry, tunes and songs: for example in the New York Times 1892, a notice under literary notes: "a volume of poems by W. J. Henderson under the title of " Pipe and Tabor. ...will soon be published" | ||||||||
1881 The Household Cyclopedia of General Information - a handbook of the practical and domestic arts of America in Victorian times, regarding sailors: "... they should be indulged in any innocent amusement that will keep their minds as well as bodies in a state of pleasant activity, and perhaps none is then more proper than dancing. This makes a fiddle or a pipe and tabor desirable acquisitions on board of every ship bound on a long voyage." |
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USA early music |
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playing for dancing |
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![]() playing for a couple dancing [drum page 4] |
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USA playing for morris dancers |
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Despite early attempts to use the pipe and tabor player to defeat the Native Americans over land, and some early 20th century morris sides, the expansion of morris dancing did not occur until the 1970's. | ||||||||
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Some morris sides are accompanied by the pipe and tabor and some of these are women. It was reported in 1982 that The Bouwerie Boys are unusual in having a female musician, Jessica Murrow, who freely criticizes or praises their dancing in addition to accompanying them on the pipe and tabor. (source) |
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Canada |
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1888 Ye Greate Arte Fayre Toronto - ‘The Piper ... Mr Stuart Morrison’![]() |
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