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"The Queen's Marriage", also known as "Orange and Blue" or "Hot Punch" is a Canadian jig, also
known in Prince Edward Island, in G Major. The parts are played AB.
"Orange and Blue" is known in Scotland as both a
jig
(very much like this tune) and a
schottische.
Of the queens of England, Elizabeth I never married and Mary I, Anne, Mary II and Elizabeth II married before they became queens. Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, three years after she became queen and so must be the subject of this tune. The first part is shared with the French Canadian tune "Little Judique Reel". The source for this version is Lorin Simmons (originally from Prince Edward Island). It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981). |