Annotation:Niger's Quadrille (5)

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X:1 T:Niger's Quadrille No. 5 T:Life on an Ocean Wave, A M:6/8 L:1/8 S:William Winter music manuscript (1850, Somerset) K:G D|DGG G2A|B3 BGA|B3B ....



NIGER'S QUADRILLE [5]. AKA - "Niger Quadrille No. 5". AKA and see "Life on the Ocean Wave." English, Quadrille part (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABA. "Niger's Quadrille [5]" is a version of English songwriter Henry Russell's "Life on the Ocean Wave," used here as part of a quadrille set mostly of blackface minstrel melodies. The set was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.


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Printed sources : - Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 262, p. 98 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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