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| Theme code Index
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335L0 3215L
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| Also known as
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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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6/8
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| History
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| Structure
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AABB
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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. 6
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| Year of publication/Date of MS
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1851
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| Score ()
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X:1
T:Ginger's Wedding
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Minstrel tune
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 6)
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
G/A/|BAc BAG|D3 z GA|Bed Ac>B|G2 z DGB|
BAc cAG|D3 DGA|Be>d Ac>B|G3z:|
|:B/c/|dBc dBc|dBc d2 B/c/|dBe dBG|[D3A3] z2 G/A/|
BAc BAG|D2z DGA|Be>d AcB|G3-G2:|]
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