Music cover for Jetty Treffz' Popular Song, Trab, Trab, or The Ride, as sung at Her Majesty's Concerts.TRAB, TRAB. Scottish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "Trab Trab," as it appears in Kerr's Merry Melodies vol. 3, published in the 1880's, is a version of composer Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken's (1810-1882) song "The Ride, or Trab, Trab, Trab," written in the early 1850's for mezzo-soprano wikipedia:Henrietta_Treffz (1818-1878) known as "Jetty," who, in 1862, became the first wife of the somewhat younger Johann Strauss II, the Viennese "Waltz King." She toured the Continent as well as England, debuting there in 1849 to acclaim. The Musical World in London that year proclaimed "mezzo-soprano voice of beautiful quality and remarkable for freshness and equality of tone throughout the register."
Instrumental versions of the popular song were issued on sheet music as a polka and gallop and proved very popular for several decades.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880’s; No. 388, p. 43.
