Annotation:Cazenovia Assembly

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 CAZENOVIA ASSEMBLY. Old-Time or New England? Jig/Quadrille. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Christeson: "There is a small resort town named Cazenovia on a lake of the same name in central New York; it is the traditional birthplace of Hiawatha." The melody appears in the music manuscript copybook of musician Luther Kingsley, of Mansfield, Conn., started in 1795, and commencing to around 1815. It was also printed by Boston publisher Elias Howe. R.P. Christeson remarks that his source, Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters, would play this tune frequently. Source for notated version: Uncle Bob Walters (Nebraska) [Christeson]. Printed sources: R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2), 1984; p. 103 (untitled--appears as "Old Tune #154"). Recorded sources:

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