Downfall of Paris
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
The tune and title "Downfall of Paris" was the product of the<br> West Yorkshire Regiment, dating from the year 1793, however,<br> a manuscript version of the tune titled the "The 7th Regiment<br> Quick March or Surrender of Paris" appears to predate that, and<br> appears in the copybook of flute player Ensign Thomas Molyneaux<br> of the 6th Regiment, who was stationed in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. <br> <br> It was played by British army bands during the Peninsular War<br> against Napoleon's armies. Its dance roots gradually resurfaced,<br> and in 1805 it was printed in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for<br> the Uilleann or Union Pipes, and in 1816 the melody was again<br> printed, this time in England in London dancing master<br> Thomas Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room. Freed somewhat from<br> its military connotations, the dance tune "Downfall of Paris"<br> became widespread in the British Isles, where it appears in collections<br> of Irish music as well as in southern English village musicians' tune<br> books. It was one of the official set dances (for dance competitions)<br> in Ireland.<br> <br> I learned it from a recording by Eugene O'Donnell.<br>
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