DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

732 LILT LINCKE
The evidence quoted above in support of the
theory that Purcell composed the tune is clearly
very slight, as in collections of the kind referred
to the name of a well-known composer was
often attached to tunes with which he had little
or nothing to do. ' Lillibnrlero '
is called ' A
new Irish tune ' and
in the very place where Purcell's
name is attached to it ;
the fact that he
used it as a bass proves nothing as to his
authorship, for he also used the tune ' Cold and
Raw ' in the same way in the Ode for the
Queen's Birthday, 1692. It is curious that
these two tunes should have a further bond of
connection ; for the tune of ' Cold and Raw,
or 'Stingo,' was attached to the words of
Lillibnrlero,' in a version similar to that given
above, as early as 1688, in a broadside now in
the Bodleian Library, formerly in the possession
of Antony Wood.
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The name ' Lillibnrlero ' was first appended to
the major tune in 1690, in the 8th edition of
the Dancing Master, and the 6th of Apollo's
Banquet. F. K.
As far back as the first quarter of the l7th
century the tune given above was sung to an
Irish nursery-song entitled ' Cailleach a thusa,'
and soon found its way to England, where it
became popular in a variant known as ' Joan's
Placket,' referred to by Pepys under date June
22, 1667. No satisfactory translation of the
word ' Lillibnrlero ' is forthcoming, unless we
accept ' lero ' as = laochradh, champions, but
the words ' builen (or bullen) a la ' are said to
' mean strike the ball,' to be taken from a game
of the football kind. The tune was printed for
the first time in 1685, in ' 180 Loyal Songs,'
It was subsequently set to various songs, and
often introduced upon the stage, w. H. G. F.]
LILT (verb and noun), to sing, pipe, or play
cheerfully, or, according to one authority, even
sadly ; also, a gay tune. The term, which is
of Scottish origin, but is used in Ireland, and
occurs in Chaucer, would seem to be derived
from the bagpipe, one variety of which is
described in the ' Houlate ' (an ancient allegori-
cal Scottish poem dating 1450), as ' the Liltpype.
' Whenever, in the absence of a musical
instrument to play for dancing, the Irish
peasant girls sing lively airs to the customary
syllables la-la-la, it is called 'lilting.' The
classical occurrence of the word is in the Scottish
song, 'The Flowers of the Forest,' a lament
for the disastrous field of Flodden, where it is
contrasted with a mournful tone :
I've heard them liltin' at the ewe 7ni]kin',
Lasses a liltin' before dawn of day ;
Now there's a irioanin' on ilka greim loanin',
The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
The Skene MS., ascribed (though not conclusively
1) to the reign of James VI. of Scotland,
contains six lilts : 'Ladie Rothemayeis ' (the air
to the ballad of the Burning of Castle Frindraught),
' ' Lady Laudians (Lothian's), ' Ladie
Cassilles ' (the air of the ballad of Johnny Faa),
Lesleis, Aderneis, and Gilcreich's Lilts. We
quote ' ' :
Ladie Cassilles
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W. Dauney, editor of the Skene MS. , supposes
the Liltpipe to have been a shepherd's jaipe, not a
bagpipe, and the Lilts to have sprung from the
pastoral districts of the Lowlands. E. p. s.
LILY OF KILLARNEY. A grand opera
in three acts, founded on Boucicault's ' Colleen
Bawn ' ; the words by John O.xenford, the
music by Jules Benedict. Produced at the
Royal English Opera, Covent Garden, Feb. 8,
1862. G.
LIMPUS, Richard, organist, born at Isleworth,
Sept. 10, 1824, was a pupil of the
Royal Academy of Music, and organist successively
of Brentford ; of St. Andrew's, Undershaft
; and St. Michael's, Cornhill. He composed
a good deal of minor music, but his claim
to remembrance is as one of the founders of
the College of Organists, which, owing to his
zeal and devotion, was established in 1864.
He was secretary to the College till his death,
March 15, 1875. [See Royal College of
Oeganist.s.] g.
LINCKE, 2 Joseph, eminent violoncellist and
composer, born June 8, 17S3, at Trachenberg
in Prussian Silesia ; learnt the violin from his
father, a violinist in the chapel of Prince Hatzfeld,
and the violoncello from Oswald. A mismanaged
sprain of the right ankle left him lame
for life.^ At ten he lost his parents, and was
obliged to support himself by copying music,
until in 1800 he procured a place as violinist
in the Dominican convent at Breslau. There
he studied the organ and harmony under
Hanisoh, and also pursued the violoncello under
1 See W. Chappeira criticisraa. Popidar Jfttsic, p. 614.
2 He alwiiya wrote his uame thus, though it ii usually spelled
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> It ifl perhaps in alluaion to this that Bernard writea, ' Lincke
haa only one fault—that he is crooked ' (krumm).