Annotation:Royal Quickstep (1)
X: 1 T:Royal Quick Step,The. TJD.08 T:Boys and Girls Come Out to Play,aka TJD.08 M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:1/4=120 S:T.J.Dixon MS1, Lincolnshire, 1798 R:quick step N:First d changed from crotchet to quaver A:Lincolnshire, Holton le Moor Z:vmp.R.Greig2010 K:G d|B2gc2e|d2BA2B|(ABA)c2A|"^all crotchets in MS"d2BG2d|! B2gc2e|d2BA2B|AcB AGF|G3G3:|! |:d|gag fef|gfe def|gag fef|(g3g2)d|! gag fef|gfe def|gag fef|g3 g2:|
ROYAL QUICKSTEP [1], THE. AKA - "Royal Quick Step." English, March (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The "Royal Quick Step" is contained in a few instrumental tutors of the second decade of the 19th century, including William Whitely's Instrumental Preceptor (1816, Utica, NY) and E. Goodale's Instrumental Director (1819, Hallowell), however, it was composed in the late 18th century as a harmony part to the melody was printed by Thomas Calvert in his 1799 collection. Calvert was a musician from Kelso, Scotland, and a note with the collection states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.” The tune was entered in the 1793 music copybook of Miss Caroline Rachel Frobisher of Montreal, Canada, and the 1819 manuscript collection of Daniel Henry Huntington (Onondaga, NY). The earliest sound recording of a tune called “Royal Quickstep” (a rather generic-sounding title) is on the 2nd Barrel, 6th tune, of a mechanical Chamber Barrel Organ [1], hand-built by John Langshaw (1718-1798), Organ Maker, Lancaster, c. 1785. The organ is one of three surviving Langshaw organs.