Annotation:Don Fisco

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DON FISCO. AKA - "Donfisco." American, Hornpipe or Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was included by amateur flute or violin player John Greenwood (1760-1819) in music commonplace book of c. 1785. In print "Don Fisco" can be found in Joshua Cushing's Fifer's Companion No. 1, printed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1805. Dance instructions for the dance "Don Fisco" can be found in Nancy Shepley's commonplace book (Pepperell, Mass.) of 1794, and in a 1795 New Hampshire manuscript of country dances [New Hampshire Historical Society].

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Printed sources: Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 71.

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