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'''HIGH YELLOW'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western Virginia. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title was a term applied to a mulatto or light-skinned African-American. | '''HIGH YELLOW'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western Virginia. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title was a term applied to a mulatto or light-skinned African-American. The tune is sourced to Glen Lynn, southwest Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed (1884-1968), who was visited by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67 and who collected a wealth of tunes and lore from him. This rag-time influenced tune was learned by Reed from a Black fiddler by the name of Mr. Hite(?), who lived in Pennsylvania. | ||
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Revision as of 04:54, 24 October 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
HIGH YELLOW. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western Virginia. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title was a term applied to a mulatto or light-skinned African-American. The tune is sourced to Glen Lynn, southwest Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed (1884-1968), who was visited by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67 and who collected a wealth of tunes and lore from him. This rag-time influenced tune was learned by Reed from a Black fiddler by the name of Mr. Hite(?), who lived in Pennsylvania.
Source for notated version: Woody Woodring [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 112.
Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF-055, The Red Clay Ramblers - "Merchants Lunch" (1977. Credited to Henry Reed). CD, Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy - "A Henry Reed Reunion" (2002).