The Triumph
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Triumph", also known as "Follow Your Lover" is an English and Scottish<br> country dance tune in 2/4 or cut time or a hornpipe in 2/2 time and G Major (Barnes,<br> Karpeles, Kennedy, Raven, Sharp, Sumner, Trim), A Major (Athole, Hunter, Kerr, Milne,<br> Skye) or A Mixoldyain (Ross). The parts are played AB (Raven), ABC (Barnes, Kennedy),<br> AABC (Hunter, Karpeles, Kerr, Sharp), AABBC (Athole, Ross, Skye), AABBCC (Sumner, Trim) or<br> AABBCC' (Milne).<br> The melody was very popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries throughout Britain.<br> The English novelist Thomas Hardy grew up in a musical family and was an<br> accomplished dance fiddler and accordion player from early youth. He was influenced by his<br> father (himself a locally famous dance fiddler), an uncle and a cello-playing grandfather,<br> all of whom played for a church band in addition to more secular amusements. Hardy mentions<br> both the dance and tune "The Triumph", the same one still known in modern times, in Under<br> the Greenwood Tree (1872). <br> It appears in print in<br> Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1790,<br> Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (1796),<br> Preston’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1793,<br> Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005),<br> Callaghan's Hardcore English (2007),<br> Campbell's 9th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & Strathspey Reels (1795),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th<br> Century (1998),<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Country Dance Airs (1951),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (1880),<br> Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book One (1881),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music (1869),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997),<br> Trim's The Musical Legacy of Thomas Hardy (1990) and<br> Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (1816).<br> It was recorded by<br> Kirkpatrick and Hutchings on The Compleat Dancing Master (1973) and<br> Mellstock Band on Hardcore English (2007). <br>
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