Annotation:Quick Step (Stonehaven Volunteers)
Quick Step (Stonehaven Volunteers)
QUICK STEP.. Scottish, March (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This quick step 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.
The piece is a companion piece to another tune in the Morison collection, "Stonehaven Volunteers March (The)," composed by B. Dun of Aberdeen. As with all the regular marches in the Morison collection, the untitled quick steps were printed directly after the named marches, and are meant to be a pair.
