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Winner's Band of Four; Being a Choice Selection of Popular Melodies Arranged as Easy Quartets for the Violin or Flute, Cornet or Clarionet, 2nd Violin and Violoncello — Comprising Waltzes, Polkas, Galops, Cotillions, and Other Fashionable Round, Square and Fancy Dances (Septimus Winner / Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, 1873)
Publisher: Composed and arranged by Septimus Winner (1827-1902, Philadelphia composer of 'Listen to the Mocking Bird' 1855 and 'Ten Little Indians' 1869). Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street; New York: C.H. Ditson & Co.; Chicago: Lyon & Healy. Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1873, by O. Ditson & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1873_WinnersBand.txt — 382 lines OCR; chamber-quartet sheet music with bound-in cotillion and quadrille call sequences). Per the publisher's preface: 'The music in this Work is mostly arranged for the First Violin, or Flute, in such a manner that it can be played by one or both instruments, the upper part always sustaining the entire melody. The Second Violin part is arranged especially for that instrument. The Violoncello part can be performed upon the Double Bass. The Second Violin and Violoncello parts together, can be played by the Piano or Organ. The Cornet part is mostly in A, and answers the same for an A Clarionet.' Dance content: (a) Cotillions — Sociable, Coquette, Courtesy, Jig, and the 5-figure Black Diamond compound (Down in a Coal Mine / Fisherman's Daughter / Good Bye Charlie / [finale]); (b) Quadrille — Dolly Varden Quadrilles, 5-figure compound (Dolly Varden / [Fig 2 OCR-truncated] / After the Opera / When the Band Begins to Play / Dear Little Shamrock); (c) Mazourkas — Mars Mazourka, Zingara Mazourka; (d) Specialty round/novelty dances — Danish Dance (round dance), Can Can Dance. Plus instrumental support content (waltzes, polkas, galops, marches, character dances) without dance figures: Soldier's March / Wedding March / Katy's Letter / Blue Bird Polka Redowa / Beautiful Bells Waltz / Evergreen Polka Waltz / Zenobia Polka / Fairy Bell Polka Waltz / Good Luck March / German Polka / Pizzicato Polka / Attack Galop / Helter Skelter Galop / Beautiful Blue Danube Waltzes / Fairy Wedding Waltz / Fairy Tale Waltz / Grand Duchess Medley / Good-Night (Grand Duchess) / First Love Redowa / Double Clog Dance. Septimus Winner / Oliver Ditson 1873 represents the post-Civil-War American chamber-quartet ballroom-music publishing convention at the moment when amateur quartet ensembles supplied the dance music for regional balls in the 1870s. The bound-in cotillion-call sequences (Sociable: 'Forward four and change. / Side couples forward and change.') document the period-typical compact-call cotillion form distinct from the more elaborate Hart's 30th Set / Saunders 1845 compound 5-figure cotillions. Has_Step_Detail = No (sheet-music engraving with figure names and occasional minimal call notation only; the 1873 chamber-quartet publishing format is primarily instrumental, with figure-name navigation rather than full dance instruction).Year: 1873Family: winnersbandCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Composed and arranged by Septimus Winner (1827-1902, Philadelphia composer of 'Listen to the Mocking Bird' 1855 and 'Ten Little Indians' 1869). Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street; New York: C.H. Ditson & Co.; Chicago: Lyon & Healy. Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1873, by O. Ditson & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1873_WinnersBand.txt — 382 lines OCR; chamber-quartet sheet music with bound-in cotillion and quadrille call sequences). Per the publisher's preface: 'The music in this Work is mostly arranged for the First Violin, or Flute, in such a manner that it can be played by one or both instruments, the upper part always sustaining the entire melody. The Second Violin part is arranged especially for that instrument. The Violoncello part can be performed upon the Double Bass. The Second Violin and Violoncello parts together, can be played by the Piano or Organ. The Cornet part is mostly in A, and answers the same for an A Clarionet.' Dance content: (a) Cotillions — Sociable, Coquette, Courtesy, Jig, and the 5-figure Black Diamond compound (Down in a Coal Mine / Fisherman's Daughter / Good Bye Charlie / [finale]); (b) Quadrille — Dolly Varden Quadrilles, 5-figure compound (Dolly Varden / [Fig 2 OCR-truncated] / After the Opera / When the Band Begins to Play / Dear Little Shamrock); (c) Mazourkas — Mars Mazourka, Zingara Mazourka; (d) Specialty round/novelty dances — Danish Dance (round dance), Can Can Dance. Plus instrumental support content (waltzes, polkas, galops, marches, character dances) without dance figures: Soldier's March / Wedding March / Katy's Letter / Blue Bird Polka Redowa / Beautiful Bells Waltz / Evergreen Polka Waltz / Zenobia Polka / Fairy Bell Polka Waltz / Good Luck March / German Polka / Pizzicato Polka / Attack Galop / Helter Skelter Galop / Beautiful Blue Danube Waltzes / Fairy Wedding Waltz / Fairy Tale Waltz / Grand Duchess Medley / Good-Night (Grand Duchess) / First Love Redowa / Double Clog Dance. Septimus Winner / Oliver Ditson 1873 represents the post-Civil-War American chamber-quartet ballroom-music publishing convention at the moment when amateur quartet ensembles supplied the dance music for regional balls in the 1870s. The bound-in cotillion-call sequences (Sociable: 'Forward four and change. / Side couples forward and change.') document the period-typical compact-call cotillion form distinct from the more elaborate Hart's 30th Set / Saunders 1845 compound 5-figure cotillions. Has_Step_Detail = No (sheet-music engraving with figure names and occasional minimal call notation only; the 1873 chamber-quartet publishing format is primarily instrumental, with figure-name navigation rather than full dance instruction). (1873). Imported from local collection.