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stable version,
checked on
25 February 2018.
| Accuracy | Spot checked |
| Depth | Basic |
| Readability | Acceptable |
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| Theme code Index
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1H1H1H1H 3H3H1H1H
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| Also known as
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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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D
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| Accidental
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2 sharps
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| Mode
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Ionian (Major)
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| Time signature
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4/4
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| History
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| Structure
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ABA
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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. 11
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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
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T:Rosa Dear
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 11)
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
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