The Dashing White Sergeant
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Dashing White Sergeant" also known as "Highland Reel" or "Old Yet New Quadrille Second Figure"<br> is an Scottish, English, Irish and American country dance tune, reel or hornpipe in F Major<br> (Ashman, Athole, Hunter), G Major (Mattson & Walz, Milne, Roche, Ford) or D Major (Kennedy,<br> Kerr, Martin, Sweet). The parts are played AB (Ford, Mattson & Walz, Milne), AAB (Kennedy,<br> Ashman), AA'B (Athole, Hunter, Kerr, Martin, Sweet) or AABB (Roche).<br> "The Dashing White Sergeant" is the name of a specific ceilidh dance in Scotland, a<br> reel-time circle dance. Tunes associated with the dance are the namesake tune, along with<br> "My Love is but a Lassie Yet" and<br> "The Rose Tree"<br> although any reel or polka will do. The alternate 32-bar tunes are sandwiched in between<br> "The Dashing White Sergeant" played at the beginning and end. <br> The tune is derived from a song of the same name, written by an English musical composer,<br> conductor and arranger Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786–1855) and published in the mid-1820's.<br> The tune entered British military repertoire as a march, where it was the regimental march<br> of the former 49th Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and its<br> successor, the Royal Berkshire Regiment (sometimes called the 49th/66 Regiment of Foot).<br> The tune appears as the second figure of the "Old Yet New Quadrille,"<br> printed in Frank Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music vol. 3 (1927).<br> It was also printed in Ashman's Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991),<br> Ford's Traditional Music of America (1940),<br> Hopkins's American Veteran Fifer (1902),<br> Elias Howe's Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843),<br> Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Jarman's Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes (1938),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Laybourn's Köhler's Violin Repository, vol. 3 (1885),<br> J. Kenyon Lees' Balmoral Reel Book (1910),<br> Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002),<br> Mattson & Walz's Old Fort Snelling: Instruction Book for the Fife (1974),<br> Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870),<br> Riley's Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 4 (1826),<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1913),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884) and<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981).<br> It was recorded by Kirkpatrick & Hutchings on The Compleat Dancing Master (1974) and<br> Jim MacLeod & His Band on Scottish Dances: Jigs, Waltzes and Reels (1979).<br>
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