X:1
T:Exit by Mistake
M:C
L:1/8
B:John Burks music manuscript collection dated 1821
N:Nothing is known of Burks or the provenance of his
N:ms. but it is probable he was from England.
N:His music ms. surfaced in the United States, and had possibly
N:been in the possession of his descendants.
K:A
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EXIT BY MISTAKE. English, Reel and Country Dance Tune (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Exit by Mistake" is the name of a comedy ballet with music by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855), produced in 1816 when hewas director of the music at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket. Directions for a country dance called "Exit by Mistake" were printed in Philapdelphia, Pa., inAmerican Ladies Pocket Book, for the Year 1818. The melody was entered into the music manuscript collection of fiddler John Burks (of whom nothing is known), dated 1821.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Button, Whitaker and Compy's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1818.
