Sara & Maynard Johnson with Rogues' Consort
Pass'd Times: Popular Music of the Revolutionary Era
© 1999 Maynard R. Johnson & Sara L. Johnson (659696015623)
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Traditional instrumental, popular English and Celtic music of 18th century America, on hammered dulcimer, fiddles, harp, citterns, flageolet, recorders, and more.
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- 1 Peas Upon a Trencher
- 2 Bob and Joan
- 3 Planxty Connor/Bumper Squire Jones
- 4 March in the Battle of Prague/ Marquis of Granby's/ Belisle Marc
- 5 America
- 6 Durang's Hornpipe
- 7 Lads of Dunse/St. Patrick's Day in the Morning
- 8 Song for a Linnet/Lord Dunmore's Quickstep
- 9 Staten Island Hornpipe
- 10 Hob or Nob/Andrew Cary
- 11 Sitting in the Stern of a Boat
- 12 York Fusiliers
- 13 Money in Both Pockets
- 14 Roast Beef of Old England
- 15 Menuet by Chedeville
- 16 Johnny Cope
- 17 Frenet Ha'
- 18 Fishar's Hornpipe
- 19 The Revenge
- 20 Eloquence of Simplicity
- 21 Lady's Plaything or Gen. Howe's March
- 22 Paddy Whack/Ah! Sure Such a Pair
- 23 The Rogue's March (Poor Old Tory)
- 24 Felton's Gavot
- 25 Niel Gow's Lamentation for Abercairny/Lady Coventry's Minuet
- 26 Moll in the Wad
- 27 Charles Street Bank/Welcome Here Again
- 28 Birks of Endermay/Dorsetshire March
- 29 Queen of Hearts
- 30 The Drunken Wives of Fochabers
- 31 Pioneers' March
- 32 Bung Your Eye/Chorus Jigg
- 33 Pompey Ran Away/Old Plantation Girls
- 34 Push About the Jorum/Stumpie
- 35 Dubourg's Minuet
- 36 Nancy Dawson
- 37 La Triumph
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- JOHN TURNER, MAYNARD JOHNSON, SARA JOHNSON, SARA WALTHERY: Favourite Scotch Measures
- SARA & MAYNARD JOHNSON WITH ROGUES' CONSORT: Oceans So Green
- NANCY BICK CLARK AND SARA JOHNSON: Crossing to Ireland
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Pass’d Times: Popular Music of the Revolutionary Era, CD of popular instrumental music played in the American colonies in the 18th century. Music was one of Colonial America's most important diversions, shared by all classes of people You could enjoy both popular and serious music, the latest songs, or dances from London, within weeks of its appearance there. Men' clubs gathered in taverns to sing and play music together, and men and women played music in their homes. As printed music was available, but expensive, people shared their music and copied it out in their own books, called commonplace, or copy books. Several of these books are preserved today.
These tunes were taken from personal commonplace books of fiddlers and fifers, from a British manuscript collection, and from 18th century printed collections, These tunes have been chosen because they appeared so frequently in all these sources. Some are still popular folk tunes, and others deserve to become so again.
We play hammered dulcimer, cittern, recorders and flageolets, and a pocket fiddle (dancing master’s kit), and are joined by our friends, Rogues’ Consort, which on this recording, include Courtney Maxwell on violin, Michael Thompson on violin and viola, and guests Nancy Bick Clark on Celtic harp, and Frank Clark on bodhran.
Maynard and Sara Johnson publish traditional music tune collections for hammered dulcimer, fiddle, and folk instruments as The Kitchen Musician. They are 18th Century musicians and entertainers, playing popular music of the era on instruments appropriate to the period, and research 18th century music, manners, and historical tidbits. Their other albums include Favourite Scotch Measures; Oceans So Green: Music from Ireland in Colonial America; Crossing to Ireland; Chameleon and Sara with Nancy Bick Clark on Crossing to Ireland.