Annotation:Dusty Miller (4)

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 DUSTY MILLER [4]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, north Mississippi. G Major. GDgd tuning (fiddle). AABBC. This is an archaic melody in the dorian mode, with irregular rhythm, as the source for the tune, sixty-seven year old Itawamba County, Mississippi, fiddler John Alexander Brown, held the initial note of the 2nd phrase for extra beats when he recorded the tune for Herbert Halpert of the Library of Congress in 1939. The tune has not been found in other collections of American fiddling. See also the similar "Indian War Whoop (2)."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH-002, John Brown - "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985).

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