View source for Annotation:Niger's Quadrille (5)

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|f_annotation='''NIGER'S QUADRILLE [5].''' AKA - "Niger Quadrille No. 5". AKA and see "[[Life on the Ocean Wave]]." English, Quadrille part (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABA. "Niger's Quadrille [5]" is a version of English songwriter Henry Russell's "[[Life on the Ocean Wave]]," used here as part of a quadrille set mostly of blackface minstrel melodies. The set was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.
|f_printed_sources=Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 262, p. 98 (ms. originally dated 1850).
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