Annotation:Post Horn Galop

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POST HORN GALOP. Scottish, Galop (2/4 time). G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. It was customary for the mail stage-coach to sound a 'post horn' [1], a type of coiled trumpet just prior to their arrival at a way-station, to announce the mail.

The galop was a fashionable mid-18ty century dance that was for a time popular as the final dance of the evening (much as the waltz is today). The "Post horn Galop" written by the German cornet virtuoso Herman Koenig was first performed in London, 1844; it remains a signal that the dancing at a hunt ball or wedding reception is ended. Koenig was a famous German cornetist, and played violin, as well. He played [cornet] in the Drury Lane Orchestra in 1840. Between 1849 and 1851, he was in a partnership with Pask (known as Pask & Koenig) in London. (angelfire.com)

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880's; No. 445, p. 51.

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