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RYE WALTZ. American, Schottische-Waltz. USA; Washington, Arizona, Michigan, New York, New England, Ohio, West Virginia. D Major (Ford, Ruth): G Major (Johnson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A version of the tune "Coming Through the Rye," the dance for which (the "Rye Waltz") combines a waltz step with a schottische step (Linscott, 1939); this is the version Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner knew when he described the first part in 2/4 time, the second sixteen bars in waltz time. Although the dance's hey-day was in the early 20th century, the tune was, until recently, played by at least one old-time fiddler for a dance in Champion, western New York state, according to fiddler Chad Miller, although he only knew of one other fiddler who played the tune in that region. Paul Gifford remarks that it is still well-known by old-time square dancers in Michigan, Peter Yarensky reports it is still performed occasionally in New Hampshire, and Kerry Blech says it was known among older informants in Ohio and West Virginia.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 137. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 7: Michigan Tunes, vol. 7), 1986-87; p. 8. Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 31, p. 12. Shaw (Cowboy Dances), 1943; p. 394.

Recorded sources: - Folkways FW8827, Arbuckle, Mikkelson & Clifton - "Old Time Couple Dances" (1961). Victor Vi 23619 (78 RPM), White Mountain Orchestra (New Mexico?) –“Maxwell's Old Rye Waltz.”