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“Hope Told a Flattering Tale” is the title of an English-language version of the famous soprano aria “Nel cor più non mi sento” from Giovanni Paisiello's 1788 opera La molinara.
The present arrangement for two flutes is taken from Blake's Young Flutist's Magazine, published in Philadelphia in 1833.
This Allegro is the second movement of the tenth of 12 sonatas for flute and continuo by Italian composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli, originally published in Amsterdam in 1732.
Patie's mill stood on the banks of the river Irvine, which flows into the sea north of Ayr, Scotland. The poet Allan Ramsay, walking near the mill with his friend the Earl of Loudoun, had his attention drawn to “a rustic girl of uncommon beauty” spreading hay in a nearby field. His lordship observed that the girl would make a fine subject for a song, and within hours the poem was completed.
The melody, which is believed to date from the middle of the 16th century, was first published in Orpheus Caledonius (1725). In his Caledonian Companion (1743), James Oswald, on dangerously slender evidence, identifies the composer as the Italian David Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' secretary, music-master, valet de chambre, and perhaps lover, who was brutally done to death in Holyrood Palace in 1566 (his bloodstains are still shown to visitors by helpful guides). Although this is not verified, the tune has a definite Italian flavor.
The song was heard parodied in John Gay's 1729 The Beggar's Opera, under the title “I like the fox shall grieve”. In Ireland, the tune was adapted, re-titled to “Carolan's Cap”, and attributed to the famous Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1734).
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Today's piece is the third study from 30 Studi, Op. 32, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues.
This is the third duet from Trente-six Petits Duos Mélodiques Faciles et Chantents pour deux Flûtes (36 Easy Flute Duets) by French Romantic composer Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier.
This Largo is the opening movement of the tenth of 12 sonatas for flute and continuo by Italian composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli, originally published in Amsterdam in 1732.
The earliest known appearance of this tune in print is in Book 8 of Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (c. 1760). Tune collector Francis O'Neill wrote, in his Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922):
In former times it was much more common to find a white stripe along the spine of brown or black cows, and this coloration was called “Druim-fionn”, or white-black. which became “Drimmin” or “Drimen”. Thus we have “Drimmin-fionn-dubh” or White-back black cow, etc. In poetical literature those titles are allegorical. “Drimmin Dhu” was a political password among the Irish Jacobites, and all “Drimmin” songs breathe a spirit of fealty to the Jacobite cause.
The Scottish national poet Robert Burns used the melody for his song “Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast” in 1786.