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 Theme code Index    661H5# 1H763
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Minstrel
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Elias Howe
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Second Part of the Musician's Companion
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 57
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1843
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 Score   (1)   




X:1 T:Billy Barlow [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig (minstrel?) B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 57) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B|e3b2a|gfe ^def|gfe fe^d|efg B2B| e3 b2a|gfe ^def|gfe edc|BGE E2:| |:G/A/|BGE BGE|BGE E>FG|AFD AFD|AFD DEF| GGG A2A|B^c^d e2f|gfe edB|BGE E2:|


X:1 T:Billy Barlow [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 14) 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:G B|e3-eba|gfe ^def|gee fe^d|efg B2B| e3-eba|gfe ^def|gfe edcv|BGE E2:| |:G/A/|BGE BGE|BGE E>FG|AFD AFD|AFD DEF| GGG A2A|B^c^d e2f|gfe edc|BGE E2:|]