Walls of Jericho (1)

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 Composer/Core Source    Biography:Munsey Gaultney
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    3 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    3/4
 History    USA(Upland South)
 Structure    AABB'
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X:1 T:Walls of Jericho [1] N:From the playing of fiddler Munsey Gaultney, learned from an 85 year old fiddler N:named William Hurley ("He was some kind of music teacher"), who learned the N:tune from his own father when he was a little boy. Gaultney, born in Healing N:Springs in 1906 was "a fiddler, writer, and all around character from Ashe County, N:North Carolina". Gaultney had an antiques store in Jefferson, N.C. N:The air is also called "Jack of Diamonds" and "Drunken Hiccoughs" M:C| L:1/8 R:Air N:AEAc# tuning D:Rounder 0058, Maunsey Gaultney - Old Originals, vol. 2" (1978) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/walls-jericho Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A