Annotation:Duke of York's Quickstep (The)
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DUKE OF YORK'S QUICKSTEP, THE. English, Quickstep March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. A different tune than "The Duke of York's March." Gibbon's original setting is in the key of 'C' major.
Source for notated version: the 1823–26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778–1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources:
Gentleman's Musical Companion, vol. 1, 1803; p. 39.
Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 6.
Recorded sources: