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'''RED CROSS KNIGHT.''' English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. [[File:redcross.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Una and the Red Cross Knight, by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)]] | '''RED CROSS KNIGHT.''' English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. [[File:redcross.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Una and the Red Cross Knight, by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)]] | ||
The Red Cross Knight is a fictional character, the protagonist of Book I of '''The Faerie Queene''' (1590), an epic poem by Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599). The Red Cross Knight represents the virtue of holiness, as well as St. George and the Anglican church. He is the chivalric champion and eventual husband of Una, who symbolizes truth and true religion [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Red-Cross-Knight]. | |||
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RED CROSS KNIGHT. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB.
The Red Cross Knight is a fictional character, the protagonist of Book I of The Faerie Queene (1590), an epic poem by Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599). The Red Cross Knight represents the virtue of holiness, as well as St. George and the Anglican church. He is the chivalric champion and eventual husband of Una, who symbolizes truth and true religion [1].
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: John & Thomas Preston (Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1800), 1800.
Recorded sources:
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