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|f_annotation='''LEDDER BREECHES.''' American, Minstrel Air and Tune (2/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Ledder Breeches" was composed by American songwriter and variety performer Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904), who is often associated with blackface minstrelsy, and who wrote prolifically for the minstrel stage. His "Ledder Breeches" (the title a dialect version of the name of the well-known American Old-Time reel "[[Leather Britches]]") was a parody on "[[wikipedia:Brother_Jonathan]]." The c. 1844 sheet music, published in '''Second Series, Old Dan Emmit's Original Banjo Melodies'''[https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/collection-pdfs/levy-020-127.pdf] (Boston), gives that it was composed by "Old Dan Emmit" and dedicated with respect to Alexander Elliott Esq. of Mountvernon Ohio"<ref>Mount Vernon, Ohio, was Emmett's home town, where he returned after a lifetime of performing. </ref>. | |f_annotation='''LEDDER BREECHES.''' American, Minstrel Air and Tune (2/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Ledder Breeches" was composed by American songwriter and variety performer Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904), who is often associated with blackface minstrelsy, and who wrote prolifically for the minstrel stage. His song "Ledder Breeches" (the title a dialect version of the name of the well-known American Old-Time reel "[[Leather Britches]]") was a parody on "[[wikipedia:Brother_Jonathan]]." The c. 1844 sheet music, published in '''Second Series, Old Dan Emmit's Original Banjo Melodies'''[https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/collection-pdfs/levy-020-127.pdf] (Boston), gives that it was composed by "Old Dan Emmit" and dedicated with respect to Alexander Elliott Esq. of Mountvernon Ohio"<ref>Mount Vernon, Ohio, was Emmett's home town, where he returned after a lifetime of performing. </ref>. | ||
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Emmett's "Ledder Breeches", however, is not musically related to "[[Leather Britches]]" or is sion, "[[Lord MacDonald (4)]]." | Emmett's "Ledder Breeches", however, is not musically related to "[[Leather Britches]]" or is sion, "[[Lord MacDonald (4)]]." Rather, as Fr. John Quinn, points out, "Ledder Breeches" is a derivative of the Scottish "[[Alasdair MacAlister]]." | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>Dan Emmett ('''Second Series Old Dan Emmit's Banjo Melodies'''), Boston, c. 1844. Keith’s''' Flute Instruction Book, Boston''', 1847, p. 30.</span><span></span> | |f_printed_sources=<span>Dan Emmett ('''Second Series Old Dan Emmit's Banjo Melodies'''), Boston, c. 1844. Keith’s''' Flute Instruction Book, Boston''', 1847, p. 30.</span><span></span> | ||
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LEDDER BREECHES. American, Minstrel Air and Tune (2/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Ledder Breeches" was composed by American songwriter and variety performer Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904), who is often associated with blackface minstrelsy, and who wrote prolifically for the minstrel stage. His song "Ledder Breeches" (the title a dialect version of the name of the well-known American Old-Time reel "Leather Britches") was a parody on "wikipedia:Brother_Jonathan." The c. 1844 sheet music, published in Second Series, Old Dan Emmit's Original Banjo Melodies[1] (Boston), gives that it was composed by "Old Dan Emmit" and dedicated with respect to Alexander Elliott Esq. of Mountvernon Ohio"[1].
Emmett's "Ledder Breeches", however, is not musically related to "Leather Britches" or is sion, "Lord MacDonald (4)." Rather, as Fr. John Quinn, points out, "Ledder Breeches" is a derivative of the Scottish "Alasdair MacAlister."
- ↑ Mount Vernon, Ohio, was Emmett's home town, where he returned after a lifetime of performing.