Annotation:Garibaldi Galop

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GARIBALDI GALOP. English, Galop (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. G Major ('A', 'B' and 'C' parts) & D Major ('D', 'E', 'F" and 'G' parts). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'CCDD'EEFFGG'. Composed by Robert Whinham (1814-1893), a musician, teacher, composer, dancing master and fiddler, originally from Morpeth, Northumberland. Graham Dixon (1995) suggests the tune may have been composed for Giuseppe Garibaldi's (1806-1882) triumphal visit to England in 1864, and notes the Italian patriot was a very popular figure.

Source for notated version: an unattributed 19th century manuscript in the Beamish Museum [Dixon].

Printed sources: Dixon (Remember Me), 1995; p. 51.

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