Corelli's Gavot

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Theme code Index	3H5H6H1H 4H3H2H1H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England, United States
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Kate Van Winkler Keller
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution
Tune and/or Page number	p. 17
Year of publication/Date of MS	1992
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CORELLI'S GAVOT. Italian, Gavot. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody occurs in the final movement of Archangelo Corelli's Trio Sonata op. 2, No. 1 (1685). Kate Van Winkler Keller finds that it was printed with a country dance in Daniel Wright's Compleat Collection (vol. 1, London, c. 1740). See also the variant "Mr. Cosgill's Delight."

Source for notated version: in the music manuscript book of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Bush had evidently copied it from a tutor for the fife printed in Philadelphia in 1776, thought to be reprinted by George Willig around 1805 [Keller].

Printed source: Keller (Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution), 1992; p. 17.

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