Back Side of Albany

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Theme code Index	1547bL 3b511
Also known as	Back Side Albany, Backside Albany, Boyne Water (1), Seige of Plattsburg (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Contra, Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche, Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	2/4
History	USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Second Part of the Musician's Companion
Tune and/or Page number	p. 56
Year of publication/Date of MS	1843
Artist	Biography:John McCutcheon
Title of recording	Fine Times at Our House
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Greenhays GR 710
Year recorded	1982
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Back Side of Albany: Annotations

X:1 T:Back Side of Albany M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 8) 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:Edor EB/B/ B/c/d/B/|A/G/F/E/ DE/F/|G/F/E/ B/A/G/F/|E2 Ee| EB B/c/d/B/|A/G/F?E/ DE/F/|GE B/A/G/F/ |EE E2|| B>c de|dB A>A|Beef|edB>c| d/c/d/e/ dB|A/G/F/E/ DE/F/|GE B/A/G/F/|E>F E2||

X:2 T:Back Side of Albany M:2/4 L:1/8 R:March S:Howe - 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Edor EB/B/ B/c/d/B/ | A/G/F/E/ DE/F/ | GF/E/ B/A/G/F/ | E2 E z | EB B/c/d/B/ | A/G/F/E/ DE/F/ | GE B/A/G/F/ | E>E E2 :| |: B>c de | dB A>A | (Be) (ef) | (ed) B>c | d/c/d/e/ dB | A/G/F/E/ DE/F/ | GE B/A/G/F/ | E>F E2 :||

Back Side of Albany: Annotations