Box the Fox

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Theme code Index	3H5H1H5H 4H6H2H2H
Also known as	Box Fox, Double Hornpipe, Blockhouse Dutchman
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 299B, p. 253
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
Artist	Biography:West Orrtanna String Band (The)
Title of recording	West Orrtanna String Band (The)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Revonah Records RS-924
Year recorded	1976
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BOX (THE) FOX. AKA and see "Double Hornpipe," "Blockhouse Dutchman." American, Breakdown or Reel. USA, central and southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894) gives that 'box the fox' means to rob an orchard, i.e. steal apples, in British and Irish usage.

Source for notated version: Issac Morris (Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 299B, p. 253.

Recorded sources: Folkways Records, Bruce Hutton - "Old Time Music, It's All Around." Rounder 0132, Bob Carlin - "Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo" (1979. Learned from Washington D.C. revival musician Bruce Hutton, who had it from a Pa. source). Revonah Records RS-924, "The West Orrtanna String Band" (1976. Identified as a "popular breakdown" in the York County, Pa., area for many years).

X: 1
T: Box the Fox
C: R-64
M: C|
Z: Transcribed to abc by Mary Lou Knack
R: reel
K: D
ag| "D"fgaf dfaf| "G"gabg "A"e2ed| cdec "(A7)"Acec| "D"dedB A2ag|
"D"fgaf dfaf| "G"gabg "A"e2ed| cdec "(A7)"Acec| "D"d6:|
|:dB| "D"A2f2- f2fd| "G"Bdg2 g2ga| "D"fgfd "A"efec| "D"dedB A2dB|
"D"A2f2- f2fd| "G"Bdg2 g2ga| "D"fgfd "A"efec| "D"d6:|
%%text 9/1/98.  As played by Bob Carlin