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Fiddle tunes from the American Revolution [compiled and annotated by] Kate Van Winkle Keller
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks M 1629.F4 1992
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- American Revolution (1775-1783).
- Fiddle tunes--United States.
- Fiddle tunes.
- Fiddle tunes--Great Britain.
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- Folk music--Great Britain.
- Folk dance music--United States.
- Folk dance music.
- Folk dance music--Great Britain.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Songs and music.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Songs and music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (32 pages) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Sandy Hook, Conn. : Hendrickson Group, 1992.
- Summary:
- A collection of minuets, country dances, marches, airs, and song tunes from the personal notebook of Captain George Bush, an officer in George Washington's army.
- Contents:
- Congress minuet
- Sir Charles Sedley's minuet
- Miss Hedges' minuet
- Martini's minuet
- Marshall Saxe's minuet
- Bath minuet
- Geminiani minuet
- Lady Mary Powis's minuet
- Mr. Pitt's minuet
- Lord Hobard's minuet
- Auretti's minuet
- Successful campaign
- Stony Point
- The Dutchess of Brunswick
- Soldier's joy
- The Dutchess of Middlesex
- Miss Moore's rant
- German dance
- The conquest
- Cotillion
- White joke
- Lady's breat knot
- Come haste to the wedding
- Guardian angels
- Corelli's gavot
- Lovely Nancy
- Yankee doodle
- Grenadiers march
- Count Brown's march
- The sette in Queen Mab
- Hay makers
- The New Coldstream march
- The Marquis of Granby's, of 1st troop of Horse Grenadiers March
- Bellisle march.
- Over the water to Charlie with variations
- Trip to Bath
- The circus
- Our pleasures
- Catches & glees
- Malbrouk
- Cotillon
- Constancy
- El! Belle Catharine
- General Washington's march
- General Washington's resignation
- War's alarms
- Alloa House
- Saw you my hero George
- The dusky night
- Spring
- New Highland laddie
- Fanny fairer than a flower
- Chorus in Atalanta
- Anna, or The banks of Banna
- New Lango Lee.
- Notes:
- "A collection of minutes, country dances, marches, airs, and song tunes from the personal notebook of an officer [George Bush] in George Washington's army, with historical background on each tune"--Cover.
- "Most of the songs, tunes, and dances are of British origin"--Page 5.
- Local Notes:
- HSP and Balch Non-English
- OCLC WorldCat Holdings
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fiddle tunes from the American Revolution.
- ISBN:
- 1877984167
- 9781877984167
- OCLC:
- 28151731
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