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Theme code Index
1H6H5H1H 3H61H1H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region
United States
Genre/Style
Contra
Meter/Rhythm
Country Dance
Key/Tonic of
D
Accidental
2 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/4
History
USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Edward Riley
Book/Manuscript title
Book:Riley's Flute Melodies vol. 3
Tune and/or Page number
No. 37, p. 9
Year of publication/Date of MS
1850
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score 1 )
X:1
T:Air [55]
C:E.C.R. (presumably Edward Riley)
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:”Moderato”
R:Country Dance Tune
B:Edward Riley – “Riley’s Flute Melodies vol. 3” (1820, No. 37, p. 9)
F: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab7b93e0-f959-0139-46b9-0242ac110002#/?uuid=277ff190-2ae4-013a-5cb8-0242ac110003
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
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