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| Accuracy | Spot checked |
| Depth | Basic |
| Readability | Acceptable |
| Snow Drop Ann Click on the tune title to see or modify Snow Drop Ann's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Browse/:Snow Drop Ann
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| Theme code Index
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5555 3H3H1H1H
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| Also known as
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| Composer/Core Source
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E.P. Christy
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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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AB
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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. 16
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| Year of publication/Date of MS
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1861
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| Score (1)
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X:1
T:Snow Drop Ann
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 16)
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
N:them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:D
A|A3A A3A|f3e d3 A/A/|f3e d3B|^G4 A2 zA|
e3e f3f|f3e !fermata!d3B|A3d f3e|e4 d2z||
M:2/4
L:1/8
A|dd ff|dd ff|ee gg|b2 !fermata!a2|
ff dd/d/|ff dd|ee eg|fe d2||
