Buena Vista (2)

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Theme code Index	1H5H 3H1H 3H2H 1H0
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Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 279, p. 233
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
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BUENA VISTA [2]. American, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. According to Bayard (1981) this was a song and fife piece (apparently not related to version #1) named probably after a Mexican War battle. Several song titles were attached to the tune, some about Lafayette, but the one that attached its name to this version was published in 1852 and began:

On Buena Vista's mountain chain,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Bayard finds the tune in a volume called The Evening Companion under the title "La Fayette's Welcome Quickstep," and as the vehicle for a few old songs, including "Look Out Upon the Stars, My Love" etc.

Source for notated version: a manuscript by fifer Thomas Hoge (Greene County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard].

Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 279, p. 233.

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T:Buena Vista [2]
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