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'''DON FISCO'''. AKA - "Donfisco." American, Hornpipe or Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was included by amateur flute or violin player John Greenwood (1760-1819) in music commonplace book of c. 1785. In print "Don Fisco" can be found in Joshua Cushing's '''Fifer's Companion No. 1''', printed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1805. Dance instructions for the dance "Don Fisco" can be found in Nancy Shepley's commonplace book (Pepperell, Mass.) of 1794, and in a 1795 New Hampshire manuscript of country dances [New Hampshire Historical Society]. | '''DON FISCO'''. AKA - "Donfisco." American, Hornpipe or Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was included by amateur flute or violin player John Greenwood (1760-1819) in music commonplace book of c. 1785. In print "Don Fisco" can be found in Joshua Cushing's '''Fifer's Companion No. 1''', printed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1805. Dance instructions for the dance "Don Fisco" can be found in Nancy Shepley's commonplace book (Pepperell, Mass.) of 1794, and in a 1795 New Hampshire manuscript of country dances [New Hampshire Historical Society]. As "Donfisco" it was entered into Joseph Merrill's 1795 copybook (Topsham, Maine) and dance figures for it were penned into Lucy Muzzey's (Vermont) commonplace book of the same year. | ||
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DON FISCO. AKA - "Donfisco." American, Hornpipe or Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was included by amateur flute or violin player John Greenwood (1760-1819) in music commonplace book of c. 1785. In print "Don Fisco" can be found in Joshua Cushing's Fifer's Companion No. 1, printed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1805. Dance instructions for the dance "Don Fisco" can be found in Nancy Shepley's commonplace book (Pepperell, Mass.) of 1794, and in a 1795 New Hampshire manuscript of country dances [New Hampshire Historical Society]. As "Donfisco" it was entered into Joseph Merrill's 1795 copybook (Topsham, Maine) and dance figures for it were penned into Lucy Muzzey's (Vermont) commonplace book of the same year.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 71.
Recorded sources: