A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Quick-Step

by George Grove

QUICK-STEP (Fr. Pas redoublé; Ger. Geschwind Marsch) is the English name for the music of the Quick march in the army, a march in which 116 steps of 30 inches go to the minute. (See Boosé's Journal of Marches, Quicksteps, Dances, etc.) It may be well to mention that in the Slow march there are 75 steps of 30 inches, and in the 'Double' 165 of 33 inches. [See March, voL ii. p. 212.]

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