Maggie Brown’s Favorite
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Maggie Brown’s Favorite", also known as "Maggie Brown", "Margrett Brown's Favorite",<br> "Margaret Brown's Favorite", "Miss Brown's", "Miss Brown's Fancy",<br> "Miss Margaret Brown (Now Lady Camden)", "Peggy Browne", "Planxty Browne",<br> "Planxty Maggie Brown" is a Scottish, Irish, English, Canadian and American single jig<br> or set dance in G Major. The parts are played AAB (Cole, Gow, S. Johnson, Miller &<br> Perron, Raven, Silberberg, Sweet), ABB (Harker/Rafferty), AABB (Brody, Allan's),<br> AA'AA"B (Phillips) or ABC (Kerr).<br> The tune appears to have been composed by Nathaniel Gow, included with his name in the<br> Gow publications Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, 3rd ed. (originally 1792) and<br> Beauties of Niel Gow (1819). It was included under the title "Miss Margret Brown's<br> Favorite" in the former and "Miss Margaret Brown. Now Lady Camden" in the latter.<br> No publications of the "Maggie Brown" tune have been found that predate<br> Nathaniel Gow's (1792).<br> It is sometimes attributed to the blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738),<br> probably due to its appearance in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903) under the title<br> "Planxty Browne". Donal O'Sullivan, in The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper<br> (1958), could not attribute this tune to O'Carolan.<br> It was printed in<br> Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4 (1796),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986) (appears as "Margrett Brown's Favorite"),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes (1984),<br> Gow's Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, 3rd ed. (1792),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 6: Jigs (1982) (revised 1989, 2001),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune Book, vol. 2 (1954),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2,<br> McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920’s),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertoire (1983),<br> O'Neill (Krassen) (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Selections (1903),<br> O'Sullivan's Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980),<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1965/1981) and<br> Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969).<br> It was recorded by Rodney Miller on New England Chestnuts 2 (1981),<br> Mick Conneely on Selkie (2001) (Appears as "Planxty Maggie Brown"),<br> Eugene O'Donnell on Slow Airs and Set Dances and<br> The Battlefield Band on The Battlefield Band. <br>
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