Annotation:Captain James M'Keon's Quick Step
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CAPTAIN JAMES M'KEON'S QUICK STEP. American, March (6/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. A patriotic composition by Charles P.F. O'Hara, who included eleven of his own tunes honoring American victories of the War of 1812, or politicians of the era, in his collection of mainly traditional Irish tunes. Geoff Hore [1] (2009) remarks:
Little is known about O’Hara; he does not feature in Captain Francis O’Neill’s Irish Minstrels and Musicians published by The Regan Printing House, Chicago, 1913. It appears that he migrated to USA from Ireland in 1812, aged 31, and his occupation is given as a ‘teacher of music’. This information came from the book British Aliens in the United States during the War of 1812 by Kenneth Scott, published by Genealogical Publishing Co 1979 Baltimore. He married Phebe Elam CARLTON, daughter of Martin L and Frances Elam Carlton at Powhatan County, Virginia on 22 AUG 1816. See brideindex.info.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Hara (O’Hara’s Gentleman’s Musical Repository, from the Ancient and Modern Music of Erin, with a number of Scotch and Welsh Airs ), 1813.
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