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Old Dan Tucker
X:1 T:Old Dan Tucker M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 7) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. 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) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D (3A/B/c/|dd (3ddd|dddA|dd df|AA BA|dd(3ddd| dd dA|dd df|AABA||f f/f/ f2|edBd|e e/e/ e2 | AABA|f f/f/ f2|edBd|ed/e/ fe|d2||
X:775
T:Dan Tucker. Roose.0775, Ole
T:Dan Tucker. Roose.0775
T:Dan Tucker. Roose.0775, Old
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
N: A Minstrel song the tune is similar to this
N:https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/020/099
B:J.Roose MS, Manchester, 1850
Q:"Allegretto"
Z:Village Music Project. Rob Lands 2019
K:G
GG GG | GG GG | GG GG | FDE2 |\
GG GG | GG GG | GG GG | GD E>G |
BB/B/ !>!B2 | AG EG | AA/A/ !>!A2 | DD EG |\
BB/B/ !>!B2 | AG EG | AA/A/ A2 | DD EG |]
X:1
T:Old Dan Tucker
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Minstrel Air
B:Thomas Briggs - "Instructions for the Banjo" (1855; p. 11)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
GB/d/ GB/d/|GB/d/ GD|GB/d/ AB|DD EG|GB/d/ GB/d/|GB/d/ GD|
GB/d/ AB DD EG!fine!||:[G,DGB]>B d2|AG EG|[DFA]>A d2|
DD EG|[G,DGB]>B dB/d/|c/d/B A/d/G|[DFA]>A d2|DD EG!D.C.!:|]
X:112
T:Old Dan Tucker
B:American Veteran Fifer (1902, No. 112)
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/8=180
K:D t=8
((3A/B/c/) | dddA | dd dA/A/ | ddef | AABc |
dddA | dd dA/A/ | ddef | AA B:|
|: d | f>f f2 | ed Bd | e>e ef | AA Bd |
f>f a2 | fd Bd | e>e ef |[1AA B :|[2 Ac d2 |
