Annotation:Niger's Quadrille No. 2

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X:1 T:Niger's Quadrille No. 2 M:2/4 L:1/8 S:WIlliam Winter music manuscript (1850, Somerset) K:C ec/c/ ec/c/|dB g2|G/>A/B/>c/ dg/f/|e...



NIGER'S QUADRILLE NO. 2. English, Quadrille Part (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune, from American blackface minstrel repertory, was entered as the second figure of a quadrille set in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.


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Printed sources : - Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 252, p. 95 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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