Annotation:Emmett's Quickstep
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EMMETT'S QUICKSTEP. American, Quickstep (2/4 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This march was composed by Daniel Decatur Emmett [] (), of blackface minstrel fame, the prolific composer of "Dixie" and numerous other songs. However, Emmett had also been a fifer with raw raw 6th Infantry, U.S. Army, in his youth, and contributed the fife instructor to his publication with George B. Bruce, who had been a drum major and instructor at the garrisons at Bedloe's and Goernor's Islands, in New York City harbor.