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'''AIR [7]'''. American, Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was composed by [[biography:George Saunders]] of Providence, Rhode Island. Saunders was a music teacher (self-professed "Professor of Music and Dancing") and ran a music shop where he sold instruments and sheet music. He also was in demand as a dance caller and musician from 1820's until his death in 1850. | '''AIR [7]'''. American, Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was composed by [[biography:George Saunders]] of Providence, Rhode Island. Saunders was a music teacher (self-professed "Professor of Music and Dancing") and ran a music shop where he sold instruments and sheet music. He also was in demand as a dance caller and musician from 1820's until his death in 1850. | ||
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AIR [7]. American, Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was composed by biography:George Saunders of Providence, Rhode Island. Saunders was a music teacher (self-professed "Professor of Music and Dancing") and ran a music shop where he sold instruments and sheet music. He also was in demand as a dance caller and musician from 1820's until his death in 1850.
Saunders evidently used this tune as a meme for students to remember as a familiarity as they played it in different keys, as they were introduced in the tutor.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Saunders (New and Complete Instructor for the Violin), Boston, 1847; p. 20.
Recorded sources: