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'''ROCK VALLEY.''' Canadian (originally), American; Jig. USA, New England. Canada, Ontario, Prince Edward Island. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Jarman, Miller & Perron): AA'BB' (Begin, Phillips). Composed by John Burt (Canada) [Jarman].  
'''ROCK VALLEY.''' Canadian (originally), American; Jig. USA, New England. Canada, Ontario, Prince Edward Island. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Jarman, Miller & Perron): AA'BB' (Begin, Phillips). The composition is credited to John Burt (Ontarion, Canada) in Jarman's '''Cornhuskers''' series (1944), but may only have been arranged by him. It was recorded about 1931 by George Wade & His Cornhuskers.  
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Fretless 103, "Clem Myers: Northeast Regional Old Time Fiddle Champion 1967 & 1970. Fretless 119, Rodney and Randy Miller - "Castles in the Air." Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40126, Rodney Miller – “Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire” (1999). Voyager Records VRCD 312, Grant Lamb - "Manitoba Fiddler."  </font>
<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Bluebird B-55-3250 (78 RPM), Ned Landry. Fretless 103, "Clem Myers: Northeast Regional Old Time Fiddle Champion 1967 & 1970. Fretless 119, Rodney and Randy Miller - "Castles in the Air." RCA Victor ‎47-4442 (45 RPM), Ned Landry (). Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40126, Rodney Miller – “Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire” (1999). Voyager Records VRCD 312, Grant Lamb - "Manitoba Fiddler." Calvin Vollrath - "This Old Tune."  </font>
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Hear Andy DeJarlis's recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjUD7hG2mY]<br>
Hear Andy DeJarlis's recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjUD7hG2mY]<br>
Hear Grant Lamb's recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/rock-valley-jig]<br>
Hear Grant Lamb's recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/rock-valley-jig]<br>
Hear a field recording of P.E.I. fiddler Sidney Baglole [https://bowingdownhome.ca/islandora/object/bdh:1362]<br>
See Charlie Walden's standard notation transcription [http://www.charliewalden.com/Music/Sheet%20Music%20PDFs/Rock%20Valley%20Jig.pdf]<br>
See Charlie Walden's standard notation transcription [http://www.charliewalden.com/Music/Sheet%20Music%20PDFs/Rock%20Valley%20Jig.pdf]<br>
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ROCK VALLEY. Canadian (originally), American; Jig. USA, New England. Canada, Ontario, Prince Edward Island. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Jarman, Miller & Perron): AA'BB' (Begin, Phillips). The composition is credited to John Burt (Ontarion, Canada) in Jarman's Cornhuskers series (1944), but may only have been arranged by him. It was recorded about 1931 by George Wade & His Cornhuskers.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Clem Myers [Phillips]; Sidney Baglole (b. 1912, Southwest Lot 16, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Freetown) [Perlman]; Dawson Girdwood (Perth, Ottawa).

Printed sources : - Bégin (Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood), 1985; No. 4, p. 18. Jarman (The Cornhuskers Book of Square Dance Tunes), 1944; p. 14. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 26. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 146. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Music, vol. 2), 1995; p. 377.

Recorded sources: - Bluebird B-55-3250 (78 RPM), Ned Landry. Fretless 103, "Clem Myers: Northeast Regional Old Time Fiddle Champion 1967 & 1970. Fretless 119, Rodney and Randy Miller - "Castles in the Air." RCA Victor ‎47-4442 (45 RPM), Ned Landry (). Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40126, Rodney Miller – “Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire” (1999). Voyager Records VRCD 312, Grant Lamb - "Manitoba Fiddler." Calvin Vollrath - "This Old Tune."

See also listing at:
Hear Andy DeJarlis's recording on youtube.com [1]
Hear Grant Lamb's recording at Slippery Hill [2]
Hear a field recording of P.E.I. fiddler Sidney Baglole [3]
See Charlie Walden's standard notation transcription [4]



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