Cotillion (3)

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Theme code Index	5L26L1 5L26L5L
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Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Contra
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History	USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Willam Sidney Mount
Book/Manuscript title	Book:William Sidney Mount manuscript collection
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COTILLION [3]. American, Cotillion. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody appears in the music manuscript collection of William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), painter and fiddler from Long Island. Speculating wildly, I suggest the simple tune may have been one that was brought back to Mount on Long Island by his brother, a dancing master who spent some time teaching in Georgia, and with whom we know William traded tunes. It has an "old-timey" feel to me, not a British Isles one, rather unlike much of Mount's collected pieces.

X:1
T:Cotillion [3]
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:William Sidney Mount's (1807-1868) manuscript papers 
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
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