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VIRGINIA QUICKSTEP. AKA and see "Bonnell's Quickstep," "Bonnell's March," "Dancing Mustang (The)," "Major Crichton's Delight," "Davy Davy Knick-Knack/Davy Davy Knick-Knock," "Hoe Cake." American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major (Bayard): G Major (Bayard). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A march known in the British Isles and the Continent, according to Bayard (1981). The Dutch authority Florimond van Duyse has called the tune a fife or flagolet air and has dated it to the latter 18th or beginning 19th century.

Source for notated version: James Taylor (fiddler and fifer from Greene County, Pa, and Wetzel County, W.Va., 1930's) and Hoge MS (fife MS from southwestern Pa., 1944) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 210C D, p. 165.

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