Corelli's Gavot

 CORELLI'S GAVOT. Italian, Gavot. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody occurs in the final movement of Archangelo Corelli's Trio Sonata op. 2, No. 1 (1685). Kate Van Winkler Keller finds that it was printed with a country dance in Daniel Wright's Compleat Collection (vol. 1, London, c. 1740). See also the variant "Mr. Cosgill's Delight." Source for notated version: in the music manuscript book of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Bush had evidently copied it from a tutor for the fife printed in Philadelphia in 1776, thought to be reprinted by George Willig around 1805 [Keller]. Printed source: Keller (Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution), 1992; p. 17.

X:1 T:Corelli's Gavot M:C| L:1/8 S:Willig - Compleat Tutor (1805) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D f2a2b2d2 | gafg e2d2 | f2a2e2A2 | d>ec>d B2A2 :|
 * e2a2f2 b>a | g>fe>d "tr"c2B2 | a2A2B2d2 | g>af>g e2d2 :||

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