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'''OFF TO CHARLESTON.''' AKA - "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]." American, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march is variant for military use of the minstrel song "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]" [http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1850.652020.0#seq-4] by William Donaldson, published in 1850 and dedicated to Charles White Esq. | '''OFF TO CHARLESTON.''' AKA - "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]." American, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march is variant for military use of the minstrel song "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]" [http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1850.652020.0#seq-4] by William Donaldson, published in 1850 and dedicated to Charles White Esq. See note for "[[Annotation:I'm Off to Charlestown]]" for more about Donaldson. A variant of the tune is "[[Carrolltown Breakdown (2) (The)]]," which Samuel Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle,''' 1981) considers a derivative of "[[Buffalo Gals (1)]]." | ||
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''Printed sources'': Hopkins ('''American Veteran Fifer'''), 1905; No. 118. | ''Printed sources'': Hopkins ('''American Veteran Fifer'''), 1905; No. 118. | ||
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OFF TO CHARLESTON. AKA - "I'm Off for Charleston/I'm Off to Charlestown." American, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march is variant for military use of the minstrel song "I'm Off for Charleston/I'm Off to Charlestown" [1] by William Donaldson, published in 1850 and dedicated to Charles White Esq. See note for "Annotation:I'm Off to Charlestown" for more about Donaldson. A variant of the tune is "Carrolltown Breakdown (2) (The)," which Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, 1981) considers a derivative of "Buffalo Gals (1)."
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Printed sources: Hopkins (American Veteran Fifer), 1905; No. 118.
Recorded sources: