Annotation:Quickstep (Peterhead Volunteers)
X:1 T:Quick Step N:Companion to “Peterhead Volunteers March” M:2/4 L:1/8 R:March B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 34) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:D a>g fd|ee/f/ dA|dd/f/ ee/f/ g/f/e/d/ d/c/B/A/|a>g fd|ee/f/ dA|BB/d/ cc/e/|dd d2:| |:F/G/A/B/ dA|BA dA|F/G/A/B/ d>f|g/f/e/d/ d/c/B/A/|F/G/A/B/ dA|BA dA|B/c/d/B/ c/d/e/c/|dd d2:|]
QUICKSTEP (PETERHEAD VOLUNTEERS). Scottish, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Quickstep (Peterhead Volunteers)" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
Morison's quickstep is meant as a companion piece to his "Peterhead Volunteers March (The)."
