Annotation:Hopping John

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 HOPPING JOHN. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western North Carolina. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune features slides and staccato which is meant to suggest hopping.  Source for notated version: Bil Hensley (western North Carolina) [Phillips].  Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 114.  Recorded sources:

|Tune properties and standard notation