Clark's Favorite (2)

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Theme code Index	1151H 1122
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Contra
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Randy Miller
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fiddler's Throne (The)
Tune and/or Page number	No. 21, p. 25
Year of publication/Date of MS	2004
Artist	Biography:New Hampshire Fiddler's Union
Title of recording	Music of John Taggart (The)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Front Hall FHR-204C
Year recorded	1989
Media
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CLARK'S FAVORITE [2]. American, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Randy Miller (2004) attributes the tune to New England fiddler John Adams Taggart (1854-1943), from his "Recollection of a Busy Life" (1938), a typewritten manuscript deposited with the New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord, N.H.). Taggart, born and raised in Sharon, New Hampshire, and was a onetime orchestra leader and composer. Taggart wrote in his ms. that the tunes "were all taught me during my boyhood days in Sharon (N.H.), by the various fiddlers in that vicinity." Miller points out that Sharon is in "the heart of the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire, where fiddlers and contra dances abound to this day" (pref. iv) [Miller].

Source for notated version: New Hampshire Fiddlers' Union [Phillips].

Printed source: Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 21, p. 25.

Recorded source: Front Hall FHR-204C, New Hampshire Fiddlers Union - "Music of John Taggart" (1989).

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