Annotation:Dancing Mustang (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
DANCING MUSTANG, THE. AKA and see "Bonnell's March," "Virginia Quickstep," "Major Crichton's Delight," "Davy Knicknack," "Hoe Cake." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB or ABB. Bayard (1981) identifies this as an international tune (versions published in the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Holland) that originated as a fife or flagolet tune dating from the latter 18th or beginning 19th century. It was still known generally as a fife and drum band tune in southwestern Pa., where Bayard collected several versions.
Source for notated version: fifers Charles Ganiear (Greene County, Pa., 1960, who had it from the Pittsburgh Pioneers Corps), and Hiram Horner (Westmoreland/Fayette Counties, Pa., 1962) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 210E-F, pp. 165-167.
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