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ALBINA. English, Country Dance Tune. A very popular four-part quick march in both Britain and in America in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The tune appears as "The Albany Quick March" in the Thomas Hammersley (London) manuscript of 1790, although its first printing appears in Captain Robert Hinde's Second Collection of Quick Marches with Basses, published in London in 1772, where it is ladled simply "Quickmarch #18." London publishers Straight and Skillern included it in their Two Hundred & Four Favourite Country Dances vol. 1 (1775), and Skillern printed it again in both his Compleat Collection of Two Hundred and Four Reels and Country Dances (1780) and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (1780). Longman & Broderip used the melody in their Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1780), repeated by Clementi, Muzio & Co. (London) in 1815 in a volume of exactly the same title. It appears in the music manuscript of William Clarke (Lincoln) of 1770. The Durham manuscript as "Albania Quick March," as does Daniel Henry Huntington's "Preceptor for the Flute," a manuscript copybook from Onondaga, New York, 1817. American fluter Henry Beck included it in his commonplace book of 1786, as did John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn., 1788). Lancaster, Pa., flute player John Hoff (1776-1818) noted it into his copybook, with the title "Albinea 10 or French Country Dance." The Goulding (1790) and Hosmer (1798) manuscripts give the title as "Marionetts."

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Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 62, p. 22. Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 56.

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