England: history of the pipe and tabor
'Regency' literature (1810 - 1829)
Mentions of the pipe and tabor in Regency times, poems often printed in newspapers; songs and plays at London theatres.
1811 story “…a troop of gypsies almost immediately engaged my attention : they were dressed in a fantastic manner, 'A winter in Paris; or, Memoirs of Madame de C****': by C., Madame de |
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1811 comic song “The little wily conqueror beckons us to come, |
1811 story “…the round full notes of the flagellet, and the shrill, 'Rosalie : or the Castle of Montalabretti' by Rhodes, Henrietta |
1811 play [Pipe and Tabor, etc. are heard without] THE WIFE OF TWO HUSBANDS A MUSICAL DRAMA. |
1811 poemThe Port Folio 1811-03: Vol 5 Iss 3 |
1811 story “…the- whole of the company quitted the supper-rooms. ‘An Old Family Legend, or, One husband and two marriages : a romance’ by Brewer, James Norris |
1811 play ‘ZORINSKI’‘The Modern Theatre; a collection of successful modern plays, as acted at the Theatres Royal, London’ Selected by Inchbald, Mrs |
1812 from a poem by Kilnsey Crag Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 08 June 1812 |
1812 poem ‘JOY, SORROW, AND CONTENT’'Fancy's wreath; being a collection of original fables and allegorical tales, in prose and verse, for the instruction and amusement of youth' by Miss Elliot |
1813 poem 'LOW AMBITION; OR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Mr. DAW'‘Poetical Vagaries; including Broad Grins’ by Colman, George | |
1813 story “…the vintagers were assembling after the toil of the day in an adjacent glade, to finish the evening ‘Anselmo; or, The day of trial. A romance. In four volumes’. by Hill, Mary |
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1813 story “…Maidens, united in bonds of amity and artificial roses, come dancing to the pipe and tabor;…” ‘The Heroine: Or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader’ by Eaton Stannard Barrett |
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1814 poem “…'Tis evident enough, the mass ‘Moonshine in two volumes’, Vol 1 by Potts, Ethelinda Margaretta Thorpe |
1814 song ‘Glee for 4 Voices’'The words of the most favourite pieces, performed at the Glee Club, the Catch Club, and other public societies ' by Clark, Richard ed |
1814The Moralist 1814-07-14: Vol 1 Iss 6 |
1815 poem ‘Story of Alexi and Teresa’ ‘The New Annual Register 1814 GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, -POLITICS, LITERATURE, For the YEAR 1814.’ |
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1816 story '
Sir Lancelot Geaves' ‘Select Novels Vol 1’ |
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Sir Walter Scott, who was Scottish and had an interest in old Border tales and ballads, understood the place
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1816 religious treatise “…God was to be adored with the heart and affections, and not with a fiddle, or a pipe and tabor….” The Independent Whig, or, A defence of primitive Christianity and of our ecclesiastical establishment : against the exorbitant claims and encroachments of fanatical and disaffected clergymen . by John Trenchard , Thomas Gordon |
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1817 song 'King Arthur and His Round Table - “…Minstrels and singers with their various airs, |
1817 poem ‘Reform’‘Poetic impressions : a pocket book, with scraps and memorandums’
by Lee, Henry |
1817 play ‘The Bandit’ IDA:“Oft when the pipe and tabor have echoed through the hall, I’ve led the train of merry dancers ‘Dramas’ by Sir James Bland Burges |
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1818 story ‘A YEAR AND A DAY’ by MADAME PANACHE, CHAPTER VI |
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1818 historical story LEGENDS OF LAMPIDOSA. |
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1818 religious treatise ‘Facts authentic, in science and religion : designed to illustrate a new translation of the Bible’ by Cowherd, William |
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1819 satirical poem “…How sweet to listen to the sounds ‘Benjamin the Waggoner, a ryghte merrie and conceitede tale in verse. A fragment’ by Reynolds, John Hamilton |
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1819 enclyclopaedia entry “…TCHERGONA, valley of, a sequestered beautiful valley of the Crimea, inhabited by the richest Tartars,… The Cyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature by Rees, Abraham |
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1820 opera 'Don John' | |
John Keats poem ‘All these are Vile’ | |
Sometimes contemporary literature describes pipe and tabor players providing the music "A blind fiddler, a pipe and tabor, struck up Nancy Dawson,
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1822 story
“…We’ve lived here in this stillness so long, that the sound of pipe and tabour 'The Idle Man' 1822: Vol 2 Iss 1 |
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1823 from ‘An Ode to the New Year’Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 11 January 1823 | |
During his 'Travels in France During the Years 1814-1815' Archibald Alison describes: "the young dancing to the pipe and tabor, or singing in little groupes" |
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Dancing is often associated historically with certain folk customs such as the Whitson Ale: "The modern Whitson Ale consists of a lord and lady of the ale, a steward, sword-bearer, purse-bearer, mace-bearer, train-bearer, or page, fool, and pipe and tabor man, with a company of young men and women, who dance in a barn."
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British Luminary - Sunday 05 January 1823 | |
In 1824 'Redgauntlet: Letter 12' by Sir Walter Scott Wandering Willie, the blind Borders fiddler, has just arrived at the gig he was to play at with the writer; the company is already dancing; is another fiddler playing his gig? "my companion was attracted by a regular succession of sounds, like a bouncing on the floor, mixed with a very faint noise of music, which Willie's acute organs at once recognized and accounted for, while to me it was almost inaudible. The old man struck the earth with his staff in a violent passion. 'The whoreson fisher rabble! They have brought another violer upon my walk! They are such smuggling blackguards, that they must run in their very music; but I'll sort them waur than ony gauger in the country .-- Stay--hark--it 's no a fiddle neither--it's the pipe and tabor bastard, Simon of Sowport, frae the Nicol Forest; but I'll pipe and tabor him!--Let me hae ance my left hand on his cravat, and ye shall see what my right will do...... universal shout of welcome with which Wandering Willie was received-- the hearty congratulations--the repeated 'Here's t' ye, Willie!'--Where hae ya been, ye blind deevil?' and the call upon him to pledge them--above all, the speed with which the obnoxious pipe and tabor were put to silence, gave the old man such effectual assurance of undiminished popularity and importance" |
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1825 poem “…And in his trunk, 'midst brooches, chains, and rings. ‘Travels of my Nightcap, or Reveries in Rhyme; with scenes |
1825 story “…A procession seemed to be arranging itself there, which soon ‘The Betrothed’ by Sir Walter Scott |
In 1825 milkmaids' walked in procession on Mayday and danced outside the houses of their customers:
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1826 encyclopaedia entry “…As the pipe and tabour enliven the dance, the fife and drum animate the soldiers…” ‘The Little World of Knowledge ARRANGED NUMBRICALLY.DESIGNED FOR EXERCISING THE MEMORY, AND AS |
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1827 newspaper report of a opera called the 'White Maid' at the Covent Garden Theatre, London Star (London) - Wednesday 03 January | |
1828 book review - An essay on women in a ’ Review of New Books’: | |
1828 play ‘The elbow shakers! or, thirty years of a rattler's life : a burlesque extravaganzical burletta, in one act / (founded on the "Gambler's fate", "Thirty years of a gambler's life", as performed at the Theatres Royal) ; by Frederick Fox Cooper, Esq. ; printed from the acting copy, with remarks ; to which is added, a description of the costume,-cast of the characters,- entrances and exits,-relative positions of the performers on the stage,-and the whole of the stage business ; embellished with a fine engraving, by Welch, from a drawing taken in the theatre by Seymour.’ by Cooper, Frederick Fox |
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1829 story
‘THE POPES PROMISE.’ Atheneum; or, Spirit of the English Magazines |
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1829 historical story CHAPTER XXII and CHAPTER XXIII ‘Restalrig or THE FORFEITURE’ - Vol. 2 |
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