Annotation:Coquette (1)

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COQUETTE [1]. AKA and see "Delaware Hornpipe." Scottish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The hornpipe is nearly identical with "Delaware Hornpipe", printed in Boston around 1850 by Oliver Ditson. Francis O'Neill printed an Irish variant under the title "Boys from Scart (The)" in his Music of Ireland (1903). Canadian fiddlers play a reel setting of the tune as "Farmer's Reel (1)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 351, p. 39.

Recorded sources:

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