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|f_annotation='''OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING.''' American, Air (cut time). USA, West Virginia. A Mixolydian/Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AB: ABB'. This archaic tune, played at a moderate-to-moderately quick tempo, is somewhere between an uptempo air and a slow reel, and versions are ideosyncratic and non-standard, even between a mentor (French Carpenter) and his student (Wilson Douglas). | |||
'''OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING.''' | <br> | ||
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Old Christmas refers to the celebration of Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, on January 6, and was the date some old-time Appalachian communities celebrated Christmas (surviving into the latter half of the 20th century in isolated parts of eastern Kentucky) by lighting bonfires at night with much gun-play and fireworks. The custom was imported from North Britain, where the revelry of "Old Christmas" reached its climax in a rough and sometimes violent practice called ''stanging,'' in which a person was hoisted on a long pole and made to dangle in the air until he bought himself free (Fischer, '''Albions Seed''', p. 745). In the '''Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore''' one old-timer is quoted: | |||
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''In some parts of this county it is the custom to observe what is known'' | ''In some parts of this county it is the custom to observe what is known'' | ||
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''the Christmas we regularly keep is the "man-made" Christmas '' ... (Brown, I, 2416). | ''the Christmas we regularly keep is the "man-made" Christmas '' ... (Brown, I, 2416). | ||
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The tune is related to "[[Brushy Fork of John's Creek (1)]]," in the repertoire of Pocahontas County, | [[File:frenchcarpenter.jpg|250px|thumb|left|David "French" Carpenter [http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/981] (1899-1965)]]The tune is related to "[[Brushy Fork of John's Creek (1)]]," in the repertoire of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, fiddler Burl Hammnons. The Hammons family also had other, different, tunes by the name "Old Christmas Morning"; see Sherman Hammons' "Old Christmas Morning [2]" and Lee Hammons' "Old Christmas Morning [3]." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=French Carpenter, Clay County, West Virginia) [Krassen, Milliner & Koken]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Krassen ('''Masters of Old Time Fiddling'''), 1983; pp. 62-63. Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 461. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Rounder 0047, Wilson Douglas- "The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek" (1975. Learned from French Carpenter). Rounder 0192, John McCutcheon- "Winter Solstice" (1984). Rounder Heritage Series 1166-11592-2, Wilson Douglas (et al) - "The Art of Traditional Fiddle" (2001). Bruce Green - "Five Miles of Ellum Wood." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/o04.htm#Oldchmo]<br> | |||
[ | Hear/see David Bragger teach the tune on youtube.com [http://folkworks.org/columns/old-time-oracle-david-bragger/22-columns/old-time-oracle-david-bragger/40272-french-capenter-can-fiddle] <br> | ||
Hear/see Dan Gellert's version on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUG2WuYaUE&wide]<br> | |||
Hear Wilson Douglas's 1973 field recording by Kevin Delaney at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/981]<br> | |||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/o04.htm#Oldchmo]<br> | |||
Hear/see David Bragger teach the tune on youtube.com | |||
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Latest revision as of 02:33, 14 August 2021
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OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING. American, Air (cut time). USA, West Virginia. A Mixolydian/Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AB: ABB'. This archaic tune, played at a moderate-to-moderately quick tempo, is somewhere between an uptempo air and a slow reel, and versions are ideosyncratic and non-standard, even between a mentor (French Carpenter) and his student (Wilson Douglas).
Old Christmas refers to the celebration of Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, on January 6, and was the date some old-time Appalachian communities celebrated Christmas (surviving into the latter half of the 20th century in isolated parts of eastern Kentucky) by lighting bonfires at night with much gun-play and fireworks. The custom was imported from North Britain, where the revelry of "Old Christmas" reached its climax in a rough and sometimes violent practice called stanging, in which a person was hoisted on a long pole and made to dangle in the air until he bought himself free (Fischer, Albions Seed, p. 745). In the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore one old-timer is quoted:
In some parts of this county it is the custom to observe what is known as Old Christmas. Opinion varies as to the date; some believe it is the fifth and some the sixth of January. This day is believed by the people who keep it to be the real Christmas, the birthday of Christ. They say the Christmas we regularly keep is the "man-made" Christmas ... (Brown, I, 2416).
