Darkie Sett Fig II-2.mp4

This is a quadrille tune from "The Peter Beemer Manuscript," handwritten for and played from for the dances in the mining camp of Warren's Diggins, Idaho, in the 1860s. This is Figure II of a sett of quadrille tunes named "The Darkie Sett" in the manuscript. It's real name is "The Meeting," from Henry Klebier's "Engagement Quadrille. It is performed here by Vivian Williams, violin, and Phil Williams, guitar. Vivian published this manuscript, the first music manuscript from pioneer times in the West from which a band actually played dances that has been discovered and published. More about this manuscript can be found at www.voyagerrecords.com.

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Music

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• pioneer dance music
• victorian dance music

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