Bonaparte Over the Alps
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Transcription: 08/30/2022 00:58:22 by Darryl D. Bush
"Bonaparte Over the Alps", also known as "Bony over the Alps", "The Battle of Waterloo",<br> "Bonaparte's March", "Bonaparte's Retreat", "Napoleon Crossing the Alps",<br> "Óró Welcome Home", "The Diamond", and "Peter Gray" is a good example of a pentatonic<br> dorian mode tune.<br> The tune is sometimes called a hornpipe. In south western Pennsylvania this version is<br> definitely a marching tune. Another local set is Bayard Coll. No. 352, from Greene County.<br> When the volunteers from the communities of Pine Bank and Jollytown, in that county, went<br> to camp at the time of the Civil War, they marched to the stately music of this tune as<br> played by a 'martial band' (drums and fifes) made up of local folk musicians. A still more<br> specialized march form of the 'Welcome Home' version goes in Irish tradition by the name of<br> '(Fare Thee Well) Sweet Killaloe'. Variants are found in Joyce 1909, No. 824 and O'Neill's<br> Irish Music, No. 100. A greatly simplified dance-tune form of this 'Killaloe' version is<br> also current in western Pennsylvania under ('floating') titles of 'Jennie Put the Kettle On'<br> and 'Nigger in the Woodpile'. Sets are in Bayard Coll., Nos. 21, 64. The American Veteran<br> Fifer also has a variant, No. 122 (Bayard, 1944)./ Bayard (1981) cites it as a member of<br> the Lazarus" tune family (identified in part by a subtonic cadence in the 1st and 3rd tune<br> lines, with a tonic cadence in the 2nd and 4th tune lines; which, he says, is a feature of<br> medieval music).<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940) (appears as "The Diamond"),<br> Feis Ceóil Collection of Irish Airs,<br> Hannagan and Clandillon's Londubh an Chairn,<br> Harding's All Round Collection,<br> Henebry's A Handbook of Irish Music (1928),<br> Hogg's Jacobite Relics of Scotland, vol. 1 and vol. 2,<br> Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 2 (1853),<br> Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 2,<br> Kennedy-Fraser's From the Hebrides,<br> Linscott's Folk Songs of Old New England,<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1,<br> O'Neill's Irish Music,<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies,<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Stanford/Petrie's Complete Collection (1905),<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1927),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Sharp's English Folk-Chanteys,<br> Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 1 (1821) and vol. 4 (1821) and<br> Stokoe & Bruce's Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1886).<br>
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