Dearest Mary

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Theme code Index	5L333 2222
Also known as	Dearest Mae
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	ABC
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 9
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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Dearest Mary: Annotations

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T:Dearest Mae
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 9)
N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848.  
N:It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff 
N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character.  
N:The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. 
N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) 
N:and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:G
D|DBBB|B B2B|AAAA|A3F|
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D|DBBB|BB2B|AAA^G|c2zA|
AGGG|GFFG|AAAA|G3||
G|B3B|B3A|GFEF|c2zc|
cBBB|BA AG/G/|AG F/E/F/|G3||

Dearest Mary: Annotations