Ben Walker's Walk Around

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Theme code Index	461H4H 1H72H6
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Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History	USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure	ABC
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 371, p. 362
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
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BEN WALKER'S WALK-AROUND. American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The tune is named for the southeastern Pa. fifer who liked it. Bayard believes this to be an "international" tune, with a version appearing in a German collection by Boehme. Further, he identifies it as appearing as the 2nd tune in the 5th figure of the quadrille "Off to the Skellings," and in the 2nd half of "The Walls of Limerick," both in Roche.

Source for notated version: fifer Hiram Horner (Southeastern Pa.) [Bayard].

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 371, p. 362.

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