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Matthew Wall (c.1810-1876)
Matthew Wall issued an advertisement in Philadelphia in 18351. This includes “the titles of some of the principal tunes which he plays”.
| Title in Wall’s catalogue | source / composer / publisher. | Comments |
| *Erin Go Bragh | ||
| Bard’s Legacy | ||
| *Fly not yet; ’tis just the hour | Moore (melody- Planxty Kelly) | |
| The Harp that once— | Moore | |
| *Patrick’s Day | Bunting (set by Quin) | |
| *Paddy Whack | When History’s Muse in Washington list (Moore song title) | |
| *Garry Owen | ||
| Robin Adair | Scottish | |
| Lango Lee | ||
| Love’s Young Dream | ||
| Eveline’s Bower | ||
| Yankee Doodle | ||
| My Love is but a Lassie yet | ||
| Sprig of Shillelagh | ||
| *My lodging is on the cold ground | ||
| A Rose Tree in full bearing | ||
| The Campbells are coming | Scottish | |
| Bonny Doon | Scottish | |
| *Auld Lang Syne | Scottish | |
| Tyrolese Air | ||
| The Meeting of the Waters | Moore (melody- ceann dubh dilis | |
| The White Cockade | Scottish | |
| There is nae Luck aboot the Hoose | Scottish? | |
| Peas upon a Trencher | ||
| *Scots, wha hae | Scottish | |
| The Garland of Love | ||
| The Moon was beaming silver bright | ||
| *The Minstrel Boy | Moore (melody - The Moreen) | |
| *Blame not the Bard | Moore (melody - Kitty Tyrrel) | |
| Planxty Plunkett | Carolan | |
| Planxty Reilly | Carolan | |
| Planxty Connor | Carolan | |
| Paddy O’Carroll | ||
| Life let us cherish | ||
| As slow our Ship— | ||
| *The Valley lay smiling before me | Moore (air, the pretty girl milking her cow) | Colleen das cruthen abo in Washington list |
| 4th Dragoon’s March | ||
| Cossack March | ||
| *Marquis of Huntly | Scottish | Marquis of Huntley’s favrite Strathspey in Washington list |
| The Coolun | Irish | |
| *Bonaparte’s Waltz | ||
| Bohemian Waltz | ||
| Cobourg Waltz | ||
| Rakes of Mallow | Irish | |
| The Soldier mounts his gallant Steed | ||
| The Rising of the Sun | Irish? | |
| *Come to me when Daylight sets | Come to me when daylight’s gone in Washinton list | |
| Peggy Bawn | ||
| Lanette | ||
| Buff’s March | ||
| The Swiss Boy | ||
| Rising of the Lark | ||
| *The Chase | La Chase in Washington list | |
| Miss Lambert’s Waltz | ||
| Cinderella Waltz | ||
| Miss Forbes’s Farewell | ||
| Fairy Dance | Scottish (Gow) | |
| Lochsheeling | ||
| The Song of Sorrow | ||
| Kate of Coleraine | ||
| Lady Sterrit’s Waltz | ||
| Peter Street Dance | ||
| Miss M’Cloud | Scottish? | |
| Speed the Plough | ||
| *Carolan’s Receipt | Carolan | |
| An Irishman’s Heart for the Ladies | ||
| The Soldier’s Return | ||
| Over the Moor amang the Heather | Scottish | |
| Bonny Jean | Scottish | |
| Highland Laddie | Scottish | |
| Royal Charlie | Scottish | |
| Last Rose of Summer | Moore (tune - Groves of Blarney) | |
| The Wanderer | ||
| Buy a Broom | ||
| Brunswick Waltz | ||
| Planxty Judge | Carolan | |
| Burns’s Farewell | ||
| Farewell, whenever you welcome | Moore (air - Moll Roone) | |
| Adeste Fideles |
Tunes marked above with * also appear in a list of tunes performed at a concert in Washington, I think in 18342. Below are other tunes from the Washington list which are not in Wall ’s Philadelphia catalogue:
| Title in Washington concert list | source / composer / publisher. | Comments |
| Hail to the Chief | American | |
| Belgian Waltz | ||
| Grand March |
References
1. “Mr. Wall the Blind Irish Harper” advertisement sheet. American Broadsides and Ephemera AB&E 4815 ^
2. Mary Louise O’Donnell, Ireland’s Harp, Dublin 2014, p.124 and endnotes 18-20, p.132 ^
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First published here January 2018