Annotation:Circus (2) (The)

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CIRCUS [2], THE. AKA and see "Charles Street Walk." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Charles and Samuel Thompson printed a country dance to this tune called "Charles Street Walk" in their Twenty Four Country Dances (London, 1772). It appears as "The Circus" in the American music manuscript collections of Captain George Bush (Pennsylvania & Delaware, 1779-1789), keyboard player Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (Boston, 1782), and flute player Henry Beck (1786).

Philip Astley is credited with creating the first circus in London in the latter 18th century.

Source for notated version: the music manuscript of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution [Keller].

Printed sources: Keller (Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution), 1992; p. 21.

Recorded sources:

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