Annotation:Midnight Hour
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MIDNIGHT HOUR, THE. Scottish, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain strongly resembles Bayard's "Ben Walker's Walk-Around" (Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981, No. 371, p. 362). The tune appears to have been popular with fifers.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs) [1] [2], c. 1803; No. 137, p. 55. Cushing (The Fifer's Companion, No. 1), 1805; No. 60. Norris & Sawyer (The Village Fifer), 1808; p. 53. Robinson (Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick), 1818; p. 36.
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