Annotation:Turnpike Gate (4)
X:1 T:Turnpike Gate [4] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Vivace" B:William Cahusac – The German Flute Preceptor (c. 1814, p. 13) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D ded|f2d g2e|a2f ded|e2g B2e|c2A ded| f2d g2e|a2f ded|e2g ABc|d2z !fermata!:| aba|a2f f2f|g2e ede|f2d dcd|e2A ABc| d2d ede|f2f gfg|aba g2f|e3 aba| a2a aba|a3 aba|aba aba|a2 z||
TURNPIKE GATE [4]. English, Jig (6/8 time). C Major (Harding): D Major (Cahusac, Gibbons, Winnington, Winter): G Major (Kennedy). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Harding, Winter): AAB (Cahusac): AABB (Gibbons, Kennedy). The jig “Turnpike Gate” appears in print in dancing master Thomas Wilson’s Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816). In manuscript collections it can be found in Joshua Gibbons (Lincolnshire, c. 1823) copybook, and in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England. In America, the jig can be found in Daniel Henry Huntington’s copybook (Onondaga, N.Y., 1817).
