The Fireman's Dance Cotillion
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Fireman's Dance Cotillion" is an American cotillion, quadrille or reel<br> in cut time and G Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The melody is slightly similar to the similarly-titled "The Philadelphia Fireman's<br> Cotillion", an 1822 composition by Philadelphia African-American composer Francis<br> Johnson (1792-1844). It is not the same tune as "The Fireman's Dance" from<br> Ford's Good Morning (1926).<br> "Fireman's Quickstep" may also be a derivative tune.<br> This tune was collected in Pennsylvania from Jehile Kirkhuff.<br> There was a "Fireman's Dance" published in Trifet's Cornucopia of Music (1888) that<br> has a first strain that is derivative of Johnson's tune and this may perhaps be the<br> ultimate source for Kirkhuff's tune.<br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995).<br>
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