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is the name of a specific social (ceilidh) dance in Scotland, a reel-time circle dance. J. Scott Skinner, who in his younger days (before earning fame as a violinist and composer) was a country dancing master, taught a progressive longways country dance by that name, one of the few in his mostly North-East (Scottish) repertoire.

Tunes associated with the dance are the namesake tune, along with "My Love is but a Lassie Yet (1)" and "Rose Tree (The)," although, as Christine Martin (2002) points out, any reel or polka will do. Alternate 32-bar tunes are sandwiched in between "The Dashing White Sergeant" played at the beginning and end.

The tune of "The Dashing White Sergeant" is derived from a song of the same name, written by an English musical composer, conductor and arranger Sir Henry Rowley Bishop [1] (1786–1855) and published in the mid-1820's.

Apparently the song was to be part of one of Bishop's operas, although there is no evidence it ever actually made it into one. Rowley Bishop, who had a long run with various works in the London theaters and was the first musician to be knighted, is perhaps nowadays more famous for his composition "Home Sweet Home."

In his lifetime he composed some 120 dramatic works, including 80 operas, light operas, cantatas, and ballets. He is also remembered for his appointment to the Reid Professorship of Music at Edinburgh University, a post he assumed but which he declined to give any lectures in support of--as consequence of which he was invited to resign two years later [David Murray, Music of the Scottish Regiments, Edinburgh, 1994, p. 210].

...more at: Dashing White Sergeant - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:5 T:Morpeth Rant [1] S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/11/04 N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 17 L:1/8 M:C R:Reel K:G V:1 clef=treble name="5." [V:1](D/E/F)|G2DC B,G,B,D|ECEG FDFA|BGcA dBAG|FGAB A2 GF| G2DC B,G,B,D|ECEG FDFA|Bedc BAGF|[B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2]::ef| gdBG FAce|dBAG {G}F2 (ED)|cAcA BGBG|FGAF D2 (D=F)| ECEG cBAG|FDFA dcBA|Bgfe dcBA|[B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2]:|]

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+|f_pdf=Dashing White Sergeant.pdf
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+|f_artwork=Bishop.jpg
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+|f_tune_name=Dashing White Sergeant
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-|f_notes= William Shield (1748–1829).
+|f_notes= Sir Henry Rowley Bishop.
-|f_caption=The Morpeth Rant was the name of a dance that has been performed for over almost two centuries, and numerous tunes and tune variants were played in accompaniment to it over many years; thus there are a number of tunes called "Morpeth Rant" or "Old Morpeth Rant" that have varying degrees of similarity.
+|f_caption=The words to the song are sometimes attributed to General John "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne (1722–1792), who surrendered a British army at Saratoga during the American Revolution.
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-The composition is often attributed to William Shield (1748–1829), a popular 18th century musician and composer originally from Swalwell, near Gateshead, Northumberland. However, as Barry Callaghan (2007) and others have pointed out, Shield often appropriated traditional or folk melodies, and "Morpeth Rant" may not be original to him.
+is the name of a specific social (ceilidh) dance in Scotland, a reel-time circle dance. J. Scott Skinner, who in his younger days (before earning fame as a violinist and composer) was a country dancing master, taught a progressive longways country dance by that name, one of the few in his mostly North-East (Scottish) repertoire.
-The town of Morpeth [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpeth,_Northumberland] is in Northumberland, a market center on the River Wansbeck serving the surrounding rural areas and the villages of the Northumbrian coalfield (Graham Dixon). It evolved around a Norman fortress called Morpeth Castle, one of several guarding the east coast routes to Scotland.
+Tunes associated with the dance are the namesake tune, along with "[[My Love is but a Lassie Yet (1)]]" and "[[Rose Tree (The)]]," although, as Christine Martin (2002) points out, any reel or polka will do. Alternate 32-bar tunes are sandwiched in between "The Dashing White Sergeant" played at the beginning and end.
-It was one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian manuscript.
+The tune of "The Dashing White Sergeant" is derived from a song of the same name, written by an English musical composer, conductor and arranger Sir Henry Rowley Bishop [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bishop_(composer)] (1786–1855) and published in the mid-1820's.
-The older form of the tune can be found in the music manuscript collections of C.J. Surtees (Tyneside, 1819), Joshua Jackson (north Yorkshire, 1798), Rev. Robert Harrison (Brampton, Cumbria, c. 1815, as "Princess of Wales' Hornpipe"), John Moore (Shropshire, 1830, as "New Sailor's Hornpipe") and in a manuscript by an unknown hand in the Vaughn Williams Memorial Library (as "[[West's Hornpipe]]" with an added eight bars).
+Apparently the song was to be part of one of Bishop's operas, although there is no evidence it ever actually made it into one. Rowley Bishop, who had a long run with various works in the London theaters and was the first musician to be knighted, is perhaps nowadays more famous for his composition "[[Home Sweet Home]]."
-The tune and several variation sets was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled '''A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c.''', "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow."
-Unfortunately, the composers names are not given.  The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.
+In his lifetime he composed some 120 dramatic works, including 80 operas, light operas, cantatas, and ballets. He is also remembered for his appointment to the Reid Professorship of Music at Edinburgh University, a post he assumed but which he declined to give any lectures in support of--as consequence of which he was invited to resign two years later [David Murray, '''Music of the Scottish Regiments''', Edinburgh, 1994, p. 210].
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