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|f_annotation='''OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING [4].''' American, Air (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Melvin Wine's "Old Christmas Morning (4)", musically unrelated to other tunes with the same title, is a rare Appalachian triple (6/8) time melody meant as an air and not as a dancing tune, even though played quickly. It is a different tune than the similarly-titled major mode, duple time, "[[Christmas Morning]]" and "[[Old Christmas]]", different tunes in Wine's repertory. | |f_annotation='''OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING [4].''' American, Air (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle) or DDad tuning if played in D. One part. Melvin Wine's "Old Christmas Morning (4)", musically unrelated to other tunes with the same title, is a rare Appalachian triple (6/8) time melody meant as an air and not as a dancing tune, even though played quickly. It is a different tune than the similarly-titled major mode, duple time, "[[Christmas Morning]]" and "[[Old Christmas]]", different tunes in Wine's repertory. | ||
|f_see_also_listing=See/hear a video of Melvin Wine's 1989 solo performance of the tune at Berea College, at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7368] | |f_see_also_listing=See/hear a video of Melvin Wine's 1989 solo performance of the tune at Berea College, at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7368]<br> | ||
Hear Melvin Wine's recording at Slippery Hill (listed as "Bonaparte's Retreat") [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/bonapartes-retreat-0]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 02:09, 21 August 2021
X:1 T:Old Christmas Morning (4) N:From the playing of fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Copen, Braxton County, N:central West Virginia) on a Berea College performance video. N:Wine plays with a pronounced backbeat. M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air or Jig Q:"Quick" D:https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7368 Z:Andrew Kuntz K:Amix [de]-||S[ee]fg ((3f/g/f/e)c|J[e3e3][e3e3]|efg {fg}fec|J[e3e3]-[e2e2]a| ecA A2a|ecA B3|{cd}cBc/A/ FEF|.A2[EA] C2[EA]|A-Bc { Bc}BAF| J[A3A3] [A3A3]|ABc {Bc}BAF|A2[EA] C2[EA]|ABc {Bc}BAF|J[A3A3] [A3A3]S||
OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING [4]. American, Air (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle) or DDad tuning if played in D. One part. Melvin Wine's "Old Christmas Morning (4)", musically unrelated to other tunes with the same title, is a rare Appalachian triple (6/8) time melody meant as an air and not as a dancing tune, even though played quickly. It is a different tune than the similarly-titled major mode, duple time, "Christmas Morning" and "Old Christmas", different tunes in Wine's repertory.
