Annotation:Midnight Hour

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MIDNIGHT HOUR, THE. Scottish, Jig or March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain strongly resembles Bayard's "Ben Walker's Walk Around" (Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981, No. 371, p. 362). The tune appears to have been popular with fifers.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 6), c. 1803; No. 137, p. 55 ([1] [2]). Cushing (The Fifer's Companion No. 1), 1805; No. 60, p. 26. Norris & Sawyer (The Village Fifer), 1808; p. 53. Robinson (Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick), 1818; p. 36.

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