Annotation:Mr. Pitt’s Minuet

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 MR. PITTS MINUET. English, Minuet (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is perhaps named for the English Prime Minister, William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham. Pitt was a sympathizer with American colonists during the Revolutionary War. The melody appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), but was earlier published in the 1750’s minuet collection published by David Rutherford. Source for notated version: the manuscript collection of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution [Keller].  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Keller (Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution, 1992; p. 12.  Recorded sources:

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