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Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Biography:Frank Jenkins
Region
United States
Genre/Style
Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm
Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of
A
Accidental
3 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
4/4
History
USA(Upland South)
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist
Biography:Frank Jenkins
Title of recording
Wandering Boy/Home Sweet Home
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Gennett 6165 (78 RPM)
Year recorded
1927
Media
Score 1 )
X:1
T: Wandering Boy
N:From the solo playing of fiddler and banjo player Frank Jenkins (1888-c. 1945,
N:Dobson, Surry County, western N.C.)
M:C
L:1/8
R:Song Air
Q:"Moderately quick"
N:AEae tuning (fiddle)
D:Gennett 6165 (78 RPM), Frank Jenkins (1927)
D:Document DOCD 8023, "DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters &
D:Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers , 1927-1929" (2005).
D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/wandering-boy
Z:Andrew Kuntz
K:A
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