Fireman's Quickstep
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Fireman's Quickstep" is an American quickmarch in 2/4 time and D Major. The parts are<br> played AABB.<br> The composition is credited to A.F. Hopkins, "National Fife Major" of the<br> Association of Civil War musicians in The American Veteran Fifer (1905),<br> a collection of music drawn from Civil War and post-Civil War martial sources.<br> Hopkins, who served with Company A, 154th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the conflict,<br> appears to have edited the volume. Notwithstanding Hopkins' claim as composer,<br> the march may be derivative particularly in the first strain of "The Philadelphia<br> Fireman's Cotillion" an 1822 composition by Philadelphia African-American composer<br> Francis Johnson. <br> The tune features a fire-alarm-like motif in the 'B' part much like<br> "The Fireman's Dance"<br> in Ford's Good Morning (1926).<br> "The Fireman's Dance Cotillion"<br> may be another derivative version, collected from the<br> playing of Pennsylvania fiddler Jehile Kirkhuff.<br> It was printed in The American Veteran Fifer (1905) and<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981).<br>
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