Charles Paget Wade

From 1900 until 1951 Charles Wade  amassed an enormous and varied collection of craftsmanship, which he acquired mainly from antique shops and dealers in the UK. In 1951 he gave it with the Manor to the National Trust.

The Snowshill Manor Manuscript
I have photocopies of one tunebook, which were made by Graham and Amanda Collicutt. They also copied an index of the tunes, in which the book they copied is referred to as no 10. They only made copies of the pages with music, leaving out words of songs.
 Amanda has informed me that the book had been in Wade’s family. He brought it from East Anglia. The duets were played by two flautists, relatives of his. Items in the book are numbered in the order in which they occur. The hand is different and more recent than the original. I have included these numbers in the various files.

In the linked abc file this is tune number X:6

Fall of Paris
The Fall of Paris first appears as The Surrender of Paris in a manuscript tune book inscribed  “1788″  and “Thos. Molyneux., English – 6th Rednt Shelburn, Nova Scotia” “The 7th Reg., Quick March or Surrender of Paris”. However, the tune may have been added to the book years after the date was written in. The Fall of Paris or Essex Quick Step: for the piano forte or harpsichord with Flute or Guitar was published in Dublin about 1795.

The Fall of Paris has sometimes been confused with the French tune Le Carillon National, used for the song Ça Ira. Both tunes have the same motif of a quaver and two semiquavers, with the same melodic figure, but otherwise they are distinct.

See: https://robinengelman.com/2011/10/28/le-carillon-national-ah-ca-ira-and-the-downfall-of-paris/

Notes by Charles Menteith