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'''EVERGREEN POLKA'''. American, Polka. D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. | '''EVERGREEN POLKA'''. AKA - "The Favorite Evergreen Polka." American, Polka. D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. "Evergreen Polka" appears in volumes of dance music dating from the late 1840's [http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/pmep.html], when it was published by Lee & Walker in Philadelphia ("Successor to George Willig"), "as performed at the Philadelphia (Dance) Assemblys." The piece was composed by an African-American composer, A.J.R. Connor. | ||
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Revision as of 01:54, 5 April 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
EVERGREEN POLKA. AKA - "The Favorite Evergreen Polka." American, Polka. D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. "Evergreen Polka" appears in volumes of dance music dating from the late 1840's [1], when it was published by Lee & Walker in Philadelphia ("Successor to George Willig"), "as performed at the Philadelphia (Dance) Assemblys." The piece was composed by an African-American composer, A.J.R. Connor.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 164.
Recorded sources: