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Theme code Index
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5L333 2222
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Also known as
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Dearest Mae
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Composer/Core Source
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Region
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United States
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Genre/Style
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Minstrel
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Meter/Rhythm
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Air/Lament/Listening Piece
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Key/Tonic of
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G
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Accidental
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1 sharp
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Mode
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Ionian (Major)
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Time signature
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2/4
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History
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Structure
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ABC
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Editor/Compiler
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Gumbo Chaff
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Book/Manuscript title
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The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
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Tune and/or Page number
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p. 9
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Year of publication/Date of MS
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1851
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Artist
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Title of recording
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Score ()
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Dearest Mary: Annotations
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T:Dearest Mae
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 9)
N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848.
N:It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff
N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character.
N: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)
N:and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:G
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Dearest Mary: Annotations