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'''MIDNIGHT HOUR, THE.''' Scottish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain strongly resembles Bayard's "[[Ben Walker's Walk-Around]]" (Bayard, '''Dance to the Fiddle''', 1981, No. 371, p. 362). | '''MIDNIGHT HOUR, THE.''' Scottish, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain strongly resembles Bayard's "[[Ben Walker's Walk-Around]]" (Bayard, '''Dance to the Fiddle''', 1981, No. 371, p. 362). The tune appears to have been popular with fifers. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs''') [http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/f/f0/IMSLP98442-PMLP202254-aird_selectionofscotch_airs_6.pdf], c. 1803; No. 137, p. 55. Cushing ('''The Fifer's Companion, No. 1'''), 1805; No. 60. | ''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs''') [http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/f/f0/IMSLP98442-PMLP202254-aird_selectionofscotch_airs_6.pdf], c. 1803; No. 137, p. 55. Cushing ('''The Fifer's Companion, No. 1'''), 1805; No. 60. Norris & Sawyer ('''The Village Fifer'''), 1808; p. 53. Robinson ('''Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick'''), 1818; p. 36. | ||
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MIDNIGHT HOUR, THE. Scottish, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain strongly resembles Bayard's "Ben Walker's Walk-Around" (Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981, No. 371, p. 362). The tune appears to have been popular with fifers.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs) [1], c. 1803; No. 137, p. 55. Cushing (The Fifer's Companion, No. 1), 1805; No. 60. Norris & Sawyer (The Village Fifer), 1808; p. 53. Robinson (Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick), 1818; p. 36.
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