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X:2 T:Starlight Waltz [2] N:From the playing of fiddler Gilmore Lee (Roseau, Minnesota), 2012. M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Waltz D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1feGtPMcj2Y Z:Andrew Kuntz K:G D GA|BG DG B/c/d|cG EG ce-|ecd4|DG Bc de|dc c4| DF AB cd|c-B B3-c|B3 D GA|BG DG B/c/d|cG EG ce| e2 d4|DG Bd de|dc cB AG| F3D F<G|{A}[G2B2][G2B2] G-F|=F4|| ef|g2- gg f<g|a-g g2 (3ege|e2d4|DG Bc de|dcc4| DF AB cd|cBB3c|B3 d ef|g2-gg fg|a-g g2 (3ege| e2d4|DG Bc de|dc cB AG|F3 D F<A|G4-GA|G3 ||

STARLIGHT WALTZ. American, Waltz (3/4 time). USA; Ohio, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. There have been several "Starlight Waltzes", including one composed by T. Richards and published in St. Louis in 1881^[1]. A “Starlight Waltz” was recorded on 78 RPM in 1932 by Hugh “Hughie” A. MacDonald, sometimes known as “The Polka King.” MacDonald was born in Lanark, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, and was one of the first fiddlers to record Scottish fiddle music. He died in 1976. Alan Ede [Silberberg].

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 150.

Recorded sources : - Edison 52425 (78 RPM), 1928, John Baltzell {Baltzell was a native of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, as was minstrel Dan Emmett (d. 1904). Emmett returned to the town in 1888, poor, but later taught Baltzell to play the fiddle}. Rounder 0436, Earl Ball – “Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 2: On the Springfield Plain" (2000).

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