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|f_annotation='''HOP LIGHT LADIES [2].''' American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Hop Light Ladies [2]" was in the repertoire of 20th century farmer and fiddler [[biography:Fonza Smith]], of Chilton County, central Alabama. The tune bears just the faintest resemblance to the usual tune that goes by the title, a member of the "Sail Away Ladies" tune family. There are few concordances between Smith's tune and that tune family. Fonza's is a simple reel with many repeated melodic motifs that get monotonous with repetition; he was also not an "inventive" fiddler, in that he did not play many variations, and accents were few. Smith was a 'straight ahead' fiddler, clean in his playing. | |f_annotation='''HOP LIGHT LADIES [2].''' American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Hop Light Ladies [2]" was in the repertoire of 20th century farmer and fiddler [[biography:Fonza Smith]], of Chilton County, central Alabama. The tune bears just the faintest resemblance to the usual tune that goes by the title, a member of the "Sail Away Ladies" tune family. There are few concordances between Smith's tune and that tune family. Fonza's is a simple reel with many repeated melodic motifs that get monotonous with repetition; he was also not an "inventive" fiddler, in that he did not play many variations, and accents were few. Smith was a 'straight ahead' fiddler, clean in his playing. | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear Fonza Smith's 1965 field recording at Slippery Hill [ | |f_see_also_listing=Hear Fonza Smith's 1965 field recording at Slippery Hill [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/826]<br /> | ||
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X:1 T:Hop Light Ladies [2] N:From the playing of fiddler Fonza Smith (Chilton N:County, Ala.), recorded in the field by Bill Parker in 1965. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/826 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G G,|:G,B,DF G2Ac|BAGB AGEG|G,B,DF G2 Ac|BA G2 J[A4A4]| G,B,DF G2Ac|BAGB AGEG|g2d2 efed|BG J[A2A2] G4:| |:g2d2 efed|BAGB AGEG|g2d2 efed |BAG2 J[A4A4]| |g2d2 efed|BAGB AGEG|g2d2 efed |BG J[A2A2] [G4B4]:|
HOP LIGHT LADIES [2]. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Hop Light Ladies [2]" was in the repertoire of 20th century farmer and fiddler biography:Fonza Smith, of Chilton County, central Alabama. The tune bears just the faintest resemblance to the usual tune that goes by the title, a member of the "Sail Away Ladies" tune family. There are few concordances between Smith's tune and that tune family. Fonza's is a simple reel with many repeated melodic motifs that get monotonous with repetition; he was also not an "inventive" fiddler, in that he did not play many variations, and accents were few. Smith was a 'straight ahead' fiddler, clean in his playing.
