Annotation:Quick Step (7)

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QUICK STEP [7]. Scottish, Quickstep (whole time). F Major (Watlen): G Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is attributed to the Countess Balcarres in John Watlen's Celebrated Circus Tunes (Edinburgh, 1791). The tune--and, in fact, every tune in Watlen's collection--was reprinted some five years later by Glasgow publisher James Aird, without credit to either source or composer. Elizabeth Dalrymple Lindsay (1759-1816) was the Countess of Balcarres in Fife, a patroness of musicians in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, and an accomplished keyboard player. Two of her compositions, "Lady Eliza Lindsay" and "Lady Eliza Lindsay's Minuet", hornpipe and minuet, were named for her ten-year-old daughter, and also appear in Watlen's 1791 collection. Haigh Hall is presently the seat of the Earl of Balcarres, having been inherited out of the Bradshaw/Bradshaigh family in 1780 when Alexander, the sixth Earl of Balcarres, married Elizabeth (his 1st cousin), only child of Charles Dalrymple, Esq., who himself had inherited the Haigh property from his wife. See also "Lady Balcarres."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 128, p. 50. Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), 1791; p. 26.

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