There is a detailed study by Christopher B. Walker of the history of the dance in The Folk Music Journal (EFDSS, London, vol.8 no.1 2001): 'The Triumph' in England, Scotland and America. He concentrates on the dance rather than its music (more than one tune has been used for the "Triumph" figures), but examples are quoted and the piece contains a lot of useful information besides. Cecil Sharp got a snatch of verse sung to Step and Fetch Her from Henry Sturch (Armscote, Warwickshire, 1909), which is referred to but not quoted.

Sharp also noted music and one verse of a Dusty Miller variant, beginning "I'll go dance with the dusty miller", from Joseph Alcock, Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire, in 1922; whether there is any connection with The Triumph I don't know, nor whether it has ever been published.