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FRENCH TAPTOO. French, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. 'Tattoo' = tattoo, a martial tune. Martial usage continued in the United States where it appears as "Canteen Call (The)" and "Old Drummer's Delight" in Boston publisher biography:Elias Howe's 1860's volumes. It is derived from the Bourree in George Frideric Handel's Water Music Suite 2, composed in 1717, which appears in<tspan x="0">Neil Stewart's “Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign</tspan><tspan x="0" dy="1.2em">Airs, Jiggs & Marches” (1784, No. 41, p. 19) as "Air by Mr. Handel"

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 28, p. 10.

Recorded sources:

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-'''FRENCH TAPTOO'''. French, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. 'Tattoo' = tattoo, a martial tune. Martial usage continued in the United States where it appears as "[[Canteen Call (The)]]" and "[[Old Drummer's Delight]]" in Boston publisher [[biography:Elias Howe]]'s 1860's volumes.
+'''FRENCH TAPTOO'''. French, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. 'Tattoo' = tattoo, a martial tune. Martial usage continued in the United States where it appears as "[[Canteen Call (The)]]" and "[[Old Drummer's Delight]]" in Boston publisher [[biography:Elias Howe]]'s 1860's volumes.  It is derived from the Bourree in George Frideric Handel's Water Music Suite 2, composed in 1717, which appears in<span></span></span><tspan x="0">Neil Stewart's “Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign</tspan><tspan x="0" dy="1.2em">Airs, Jiggs & Marches” (1784, No. 41, p. 19) as "[[Air by Mr. Handel]]"
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