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BURLINGTON SET--FIRST FIGURE. American, Quadrille (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABACA. The quadrille was composed by Providence, Rhode Island, violinist, music teacher, and dance fiddler Biography:George Saunders. It appears in his influential 1847 violin tutor along with several other quadrilles he composed.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Saunders (New and Complete Instructor for the Violin), Boston, 1847; No. 1, p. 90.

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