Haste to the Wedding
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
This tune, known variously as "Haste to the Wedding", "Come Haste",<br> "Rural Felicity", "The Long Eight" and many other titles, is an Irish jig in D Major.<br> It is also known in England, America and Canada.<br> The earliest known source for the tune is James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket<br> Companion, vol 10 (1759), where it is titled "The Small Pin Cushion".<br> It was used (with lyrics) in the pantomime "The Elopement" in 1767.<br> The tune first achieved popularity as a stage piece but it soon <br> entered folk tradition. Chappell noted that the tune was<br> "more frequently to be heard upon the chimes of country churches than any other<br> and usually played when a wedding is about to take place".<br> The tune also has a long history In North America. It appears in late 18th century music<br> copybooks such as those of Captain George Bush and Henry Livingston.<br> It was printed by Howe in his Musician's Omnibus (1850) and in his School for the Fife<br> (1851). Winston Wilkinson in "Virginia Dance Tunes" in Southern Folklore Quarterly<br> (March, 1942) calls it "one of the best-loved tunes in Virginia".<br> It was also printed in<br> Adam's Old Time Fiddlers' Favorite Barn Dance Tunes (1928),<br> Hopkins' American Veteran Fifer (1927),<br> Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dances (1974),<br> Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944),<br> and Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Bégin's Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood (1985),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> R.P. Bronner's Old Time Music Makers of New York State (1987),<br> Burchenal's Rinnce na h-Éireann and<br> American Country Dances, vol. 1 (1918),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Cranford's Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes (1995),<br> DeVille & Gold's Universal Album (1912),<br> Ford's Traditional Music of America (1940),<br> Giblin's Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music (1928),<br> Harding's All Round Collection (1905) and<br> Original Collection (1928),<br> P.H. Hughes' Gems from the Emerald Isle (c. 1860's),<br> Jarman's The Cornhuskers Book of Square Dance Tunes (1944),<br> Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 3,<br> Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. 8 (1908),<br> S. Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 4: Fine Tunes (1983) (revised 1991, 2001)<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977),<br> Keegan's The Keegan Tunes (2002),<br> Keller's Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution (1992),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1,<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Linscott's Folk Songs of Old New England (1939),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920's),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertoire (1983),<br> James Morrison's How to Play the Globe Accordion Irish Style (1931),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989), and<br> Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Robbins' Collection of 200 Jigs, Reels, and Country Dances (1933),<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1912),<br> Ruth's Pioneer Western Folk Tunes (1948),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Saar's Fifty Country Dances (1932),<br> O'Malley & Atwood's Seventy Good Old Dances (1919),<br> Sharp & Macilwaine's Morris Dance Tunes, Set 3 (1909),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997),<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981),<br> Thomas and Leeder's The Singin' Gatherin' (1939),<br> Trim's Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy (1990),<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999),<br> White's Excelsior Collection (1907),<br> Wilkinson's Country Dance Tunes and<br> Southern Folklore Quarterly, vol. 6.<br> It was recorded by Kirkpatrick & Hutchings on The Compleat Dancing Master (1974),<br> The Mellstock Band on The Dance at Pheonix: Village Band Music from Hardy's Wessex and Beyond,<br> Patrick J. Scanlon (78 RPM) (1917)<br> John H. Kimmel (accordion player from N.Y.C.) (78 RPM) 1920.<br> Liam Walsh with J. O'Mahoney (78 RPM) (1926. 2nd tune, following "Humors of Bantry")<br> The Canterbury Country Orchestra Meets the F&W String Band on<br> The Canterbury Country Orchestra Meets the F&W String Band,<br> Jean Carignan on Old Time Fiddle Tunes,<br> Per's Four on Jigs and Reels,<br> Fennigs All Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer,<br> Uncle Steve Hubbard and His Boys (78 RPM) c. 1928,<br> Guy Carawan on Jubilee (1979),<br> Stephen Tucker on American Fiddle Tunes,<br> Jim Taylor on The Civil War Collection (1996),<br> Stephen Tucker on American Fiddle Tunes and<br> Mrs. Ben Scott and Myrtle B. Wilkinson on American Fiddle Tunes (1971).<br> <br>
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