Annotation:Doctor (2) (The)

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 DOCTOR [2], THE. Scottish (?), Quickstep (6/8). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune and title appears in the John Fife music manuscript begun in 1780 (perhaps in Perthshire, although there are references to battles in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, so perhaps it was compiled in part at sea). In the ms. it is described as a 'quickstep'. In America, it was printed in Charles Robbins' Fife and Drum Tutor (Exeter, N.H., 1812), and it was entered into a commonplace book (entitled "The American Volunteer") by an unknown musician (the ms. is kept in the Hay Library at Brown University). Given these references, it appears to have been a quickstep march, rather than a country dance tune.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1782; No. 186, p. 69. Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 31, p. 30.  Recorded sources:

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