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Yankee Doodle
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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1996
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Yankee Doodle. Popular Amer. tune with confused history of both words and mus., the 2 words of the title being still unexplained as to orig. Earliest printed version of tune, under this title, in Vol. I of Aird's
Selection of Scotch,
English,
Irish, and Foreign Airs for the Fife,
Violin, or German Flute (Glasgow,
c.1775). Many sets of humorous or nonsense words fitted to it since. Anton Rubinstein wrote pf. variations on tune, and Vieuxtemps's
Caprice burlesque, vn. and pf., is based on it. It is used, altered, in theme in finale of Dvořák's New World Sym.
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Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
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"Yankee Doodle"
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
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