Annotation:Off to Charleston: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
---- | ---- | ||
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> | <p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> | ||
'''OFF TO CHARLESTON.''' AKA - "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]." American, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march is variant for military use of the minstrel song "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]" [http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1850.652020.0#seq-4] by William Donaldson, published in 1850 and dedicated to Charles White Esq. | '''OFF TO CHARLESTON.''' AKA - "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]." American, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march is variant for military use of the minstrel song "[[I'm Off for Charleston]]/[[I'm Off to Charlestown]]" [http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1850.652020.0#seq-4] by William Donaldson, published in 1850 and dedicated to Charles White Esq. See note for "[[Annotation:I'm Off to Charlestown]]" for more about Donaldson. | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
Revision as of 05:27, 31 August 2014
Back to Off to Charleston
OFF TO CHARLESTON. AKA - "I'm Off for Charleston/I'm Off to Charlestown." American, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march is variant for military use of the minstrel song "I'm Off for Charleston/I'm Off to Charlestown" [1] by William Donaldson, published in 1850 and dedicated to Charles White Esq. See note for "Annotation:I'm Off to Charlestown" for more about Donaldson.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Hopkins (American Veteran Fifer), 1905; No. 118.
Recorded sources: