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|f_annotation='''SOLDIER'S DANCE [1].''' AKA and see "[[Marchioness (The)]]," "[[Guard House (The)]]," "[[Hullichan Jig]]," "[[Chelmsford Races]]." Scottish; Jig or Quadrille (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. A Major (Ford): G Major (Bayard). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard dates the tune to the 18th century; it appears in '''The Scottish Country Dance Book''' obtained from a Skillern collection of 1776. It was also printed by John Watlen (Edinburgh) and James Aird (Glasgow) in the 1790's. | |f_annotation='''SOLDIER'S DANCE [1].''' AKA and see "[[Marchioness (The)]]," "[[Guard House (The)]]," "[[Hullichan Jig]]," "[[Chelmsford Races]]." Scottish; Jig or Quadrille (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. A Major (Ford): G Major (Bayard). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard dates the tune to the 18th century; it appears in '''The Scottish Country Dance Book''' obtained from a Skillern collection of 1776. It was also printed by John Watlen (Edinburgh) and James Aird (Glasgow) in the 1790's. "[[Hullichan Jig]]" is cognate in the second strain only; the first strain is unrelated to the first strain of "Soldier's Dance (1)." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Hoge MS (a fife MS from southwestern Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=Hoge MS (a fife MS from southwestern Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796; No. 85, p. 35. Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 587, p. 517. Ford ('''Traditional Music in America'''), 1940; p. 90. '''The Scottish Country Dance Book''', 1930 1957, Pt. 16, No. 3 (tune 2). John Watlen ('''The Celebrated Circus Tunes'''), Edinburgh, 1791; p. 5. Winner ('''New American School for the Banjo'''), 1883; p. 40. | |f_printed_sources=Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796; No. 85, p. 35. Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 587, p. 517. Ford ('''Traditional Music in America'''), 1940; p. 90. '''The Scottish Country Dance Book''', 1930 1957, Pt. 16, No. 3 (tune 2). John Watlen ('''The Celebrated Circus Tunes'''), Edinburgh, 1791; p. 5. Winner ('''New American School for the Banjo'''), 1883; p. 40. | ||
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X:1 T:Soldier's Dance [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig Q:"Allegretto" N:”Performed by Master Giles.” Master Giles, also known as “The Little N:Devil on Horseback” was a young and talented member of the N:equestrian company of the Edinburgh circus in the 1791 season. B:John Watlen - The Celebrated Circus Tunes (Edinburgh, 1791, p. 5) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A E|A2A AGA|B2B e2d|c2A AGA|GBG EFG| A2A AGA|B2B e2d|cBA BAG|A2A A2:| |:e2e cde|f2f f3|g2g efg|a2a a3| e2e cde|fga agf|edc BAG|A2A A2:||
SOLDIER'S DANCE [1]. AKA and see "Marchioness (The)," "Guard House (The)," "Hullichan Jig," "Chelmsford Races." Scottish; Jig or Quadrille (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. A Major (Ford): G Major (Bayard). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard dates the tune to the 18th century; it appears in The Scottish Country Dance Book obtained from a Skillern collection of 1776. It was also printed by John Watlen (Edinburgh) and James Aird (Glasgow) in the 1790's. "Hullichan Jig" is cognate in the second strain only; the first strain is unrelated to the first strain of "Soldier's Dance (1)."
