O! Susanna
X:1 T:O! Susanna M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Song Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 4) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:D d/e/|fa ab|af d>e|ff ed|e3 d/e/|fa ab|af de|ff ee|d3|| g2g2|b b2b|aa fd|e3 d/e/|fa ab|af de|ff ee|d3:|]
X:1
T:Oh, Susannah
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Philip Carolan music manuscript collection
N:Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910, Crossmolina, County Mayo), a musically literate
N:farmer and fiddler who compiled his ms. probably during 1863-1873.
S:Angela Buckley, thesis, “A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of
S:Philip Carolan c. 1839-1910, vol. 2”, Waterford Institute of Technology,
S:2007, p. 61. Carolan ms. 1, No. 176.
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