Annotation:Evansville (2): Difference between revisions

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EVANSVILLE (2). American, Reel. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Similar to "Ratcatcher's Reel," "Clem Titus Jig," "Wide Awake Reel," "Peggy Whiffle's."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 33. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883;

Recorded sources:

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-'''EVANSVILLE (2)'''. American, Reel. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Similar to "[[Ratcatcher's Reel]]," "[[Clem Titus Jig]]," "[[Wide Awake Reel]]," "[[Peggy Whiffle's]]." Howard Marshall writes: "We play this in the key of G major...Evansville is now just a sign by the railroad tracks, a tiny unrealised railroad town a few miles from the farm where I was born, on the Randolph-Monroe County line in central Missouri.  The tune was popularised by 'old man Dalton' (Charlie Dalton), a good local dance fiddler in former times."
+'''EVANSVILLE (2)'''. American, Reel. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Similar to "[[Ratcatcher's Reel]]," "[[Clem Titus Jig]]," "[[Wide Awake Reel]]," "[[Peggy Whiffle's]]."
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