Annotation:Dineo
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DINEO. AKA and see "Di-nee-o, Ladies," "Darneo," "Sally Ann (1)," "Tideo." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Va. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The name "Dineo" is particular to the Franklin/Floyd County area of western Virginia. A more widely known variant is "Sally Ann (1)," though there is a family of more or less related tunes (depending on the variants of each) that go by the names "Sandy Land," "Great Big Taters in Sandy Land," and "Sail away Ladies (1),"
Di-nee-o is perhaps a variant of 'Dinah', but the tune has also been called "Dideo," "Darneo," "Dolly-o," "Horneo," "Toddy-o" and such. However, the word "dideo" referred to an African-American dance party or perhaps a dance movement[1]
"Dineo" was recorded by Herbert Halpern for the Library of Congress (2739-A-3), 1939, from the playing of Taylor Houston and the Houston Bald Knob String Band (Franklin County, Va.) during a dance.
- ↑ See Stephen Green, "Title, Text, and Tune Interrelations in American Fiddle Music", p. 36, for citations.