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"Standard Club Quadrille" is an American square dance in G and D major.
Benjamin Lovett, a New England dancing master, was hired by Henry Ford and relocated from Massachusetts to Michigan. He recorded numerous albums with the Henry Ford Orchestra, as well as authoring Good Morning, Ford's country dance book. Paul Gifford notes: "'Standard Club Quadrille' came from Jasper Bisbee, a fiddler from Paris, Michigan (1843-1935) who recorded for Edison". The record accompanying Good Morning for this tune was recorded by Lovett in 1943. The book gives two tunes titled "Standard Club Quadrille": one subtitled "Figure I" and one subtitled "Figure II". This is the "Figure II" tune. This tune uses the cotillion form, modulating from G to D and back to G in 6/8 time. Bayard refers to this tune in his notes to "Allegheny County" in Dance to the Fiddle (1981). It was printed in Lovett's Good Morning (1943). |