Annotation:Martin Quadrille (The)

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MARTIN QUADRILLE, THE. American, Quadrille (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The first strain is seven measures long and probably mis-remembered. The second strain Bayard (1981) finds to be an "international strain that resounds endlessly through our present-day instrumental folk music, forming sometimes the first section, sometimes a following one, or a number of tunes, and assuming quite a number of variant forms." He begs comparison with the first strain of an untitled breakdown in R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory (1973, No. 61, see below), "Muses (The)" in Howe's Diamond School for the Violin (1862, p. 76, 1st part), the English country dance tunes "Three Meet" and "Pleasures of the Town (2) (The)", and the German "Zweitritt" (Boehme, No. 273, 2nd part).

Source for notated version: Charles Martin (Fayette County, Pa., 1946; Martin learned it from a brother-in-law who picked the tune up in Virginia) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 117, p. 66.

Recorded sources:

X:61
T:Breakdown
M:2/4
L:1/8
B:Christeson - Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973, No. 61)
K:C
G/G/|cG/c/ ec/e/|g/^f/a/f/ g/e/d/c/|BG/B/ dB/d/|f/e/g/e/ f/e/d/B/|
cG/c/ ec/e/|g/^f/a/f/ g/e/d/c/|B/G/B/d/ g/d/B/G/|cc/d/ c:|
|:c|a>a [ca][ca]|a/^g/a/b/ a/g/e/f/|g>g [cg][cg]|g/^f/g/a/ g/e/d/e/|
ff/g/ f/e/d/c/|ee/f/ e/d/c/A/|B/G/B/d/ g/d/B/G/|[Ec][E/c/][E/d/] [Ec]:|]

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