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"USA/Mid-Atlantic" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
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
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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