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|f_annotation='''OLD KING CROW.''' American, Air and Reel (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABA. "Old King Crow" was a minstrel song and dance tune written and composed by A.F. Winnemore. It was published in Boston in 1843 in a folio of six songs sung by the Virginia Minstrels, one of the first and most famous blackface minstrels groups to perform. It was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Bellport, Long Island, ship-builder and musician [[biography:Isaac Homan]]. | |f_annotation='''OLD KING CROW.''' American, Air and Reel (2/4 time). G Major (Comer): D Major (Briggs). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABA. "Old King Crow" was a minstrel song and dance tune written and composed by A.F. Winnemore. It was published in Boston in 1843 in a folio of six songs sung by the Virginia Minstrels, one of the first and most famous blackface minstrels groups to perform. It was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Bellport, Long Island, ship-builder and musician [[biography:Isaac Homan]]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Thomas Comer (arranger) ('''The Celebrated Negro Melodies as sung by the Virginia Minstrels'''), Boston, 1843; No. 6. | |f_printed_sources=Thomas Briggs ('''Instructions for the Banjo'''), 1855; p. 17. Thomas Comer (arranger) ('''The Celebrated Negro Melodies as sung by the Virginia Minstrels'''), Boston, 1843; No. 6. | ||
|f_see_also_listing=See the Celebrated Negro Melodies publication at Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection [https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/020/107] | |||
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OLD KING CROW. American, Air and Reel (2/4 time). G Major (Comer): D Major (Briggs). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABA. "Old King Crow" was a minstrel song and dance tune written and composed by A.F. Winnemore. It was published in Boston in 1843 in a folio of six songs sung by the Virginia Minstrels, one of the first and most famous blackface minstrels groups to perform. It was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Bellport, Long Island, ship-builder and musician biography:Isaac Homan.
