Annotation:Soldier's Dance (1)

{{TuneAnnotation |f_annotation=SOLDIER'S DANCE [1]. AKA and see "Marchioness (The)," "[[Guard House (The)," "Hullichan Jig (The)," "Chelmsford Races." Scottish; Jig or Quadrille (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. A Major (Ford): G Major (Bayard). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard dates the tune to the 18th century; it appears in The Scottish Country Dance Book obtained from a Skillern collection of 1776. It was also printed by John Watlen (Edinburgh) and James Aird (Glasgow) in the 1790's. |f_source_for_notated_version=Hoge MS (a fife MS from southwestern Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. |f_printed_sources=Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 85, p. 35. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 587, p. 517. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 90. The Scottish Country Dance Book, 1930 1957, Pt. 16, No. 3 (tune 2). John Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), Edinburgh, 1791; p. 5. Winner (New American School for the Banjo), 1883; p. 40. |f_recorded_sources=s |f_see_also_listing=s }}