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DETROIT SCHOTTISCHE. AKA and see "Flop-Eared Mule [1]," "Old Detroit Schottische." Old-Time, Schottische. USA, Michigan. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A schottische variant (and predecessor) of the old-time fiddling chestnut "Flop Eared Mule." Adam Couse is credited with composing "Detroit Schottische", published Detroit in 1854. It eventually sold an astounding (for the era) 100,000 copies in America, and was re-pubished abroad. Couse was a dancing master and music store owner in Detroit, Michigan. Gifford remarks that none of the old-time fiddlers in Michigan that he encountered knew the title "Flop-Eared Mule," but most or all knew this tune as either nameless schottische, or sometimes as "Old Detroit Schottische." The name Detroit is derived from the French word for the straits, a narrow passage from one lake to another, though the French spelling is given "the most uncompromising English pronunciation" (Matthews, 1972).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 7: Michigan Tunes), vol. 7, 1986-87; p. 2.

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Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''DETROIT SCHOTTISCHE'''. AKA and see "Flop-Eared Mule [1]," "Old Detroit Schottische." Old-Time, Schottische. USA, Michigan. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A schottische variant (and predecessor) of the old-time fiddling chestnut "Flop Eared Mule." Paul Gifford communicates that one Adam Couse is credited with composing "Detroit Schottische" and that he published it in Detroit in 1851, eventually selling some 100,000 copies.  Gifford remarks that none of the old-time fiddlers in Michigan that he encountered knew the title "Flop-Eared Mule," but most or all knew this tune as either nameless schottische, or sometimes as "Old Detroit Schottische." The name Detroit is derived from the French word for the straits, a narrow passage from one lake to another, though the French spelling is given "the most uncompromising English pronunciation" (Matthews, 1972).
+'''DETROIT SCHOTTISCHE'''. AKA and see "Flop-Eared Mule [1]," "Old Detroit Schottische." Old-Time, Schottische. USA, Michigan. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A schottische variant (and predecessor) of the old-time fiddling chestnut "Flop Eared Mule." Adam Couse is credited with composing "Detroit Schottische", published Detroit in 1854. It eventually sold an astounding (for the era) 100,000 copies in America, and was re-pubished abroad. Couse was a dancing master and music store owner in Detroit, Michigan.   Gifford remarks that none of the old-time fiddlers in Michigan that he encountered knew the title "Flop-Eared Mule," but most or all knew this tune as either nameless schottische, or sometimes as "Old Detroit Schottische." The name Detroit is derived from the French word for the straits, a narrow passage from one lake to another, though the French spelling is given "the most uncompromising English pronunciation" (Matthews, 1972).
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