Annotation:Ledder Breeches
X:1 T:Ledder Breeches M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air and Reel Q:”Andante” B:Keith’s Flute Instruction Book (Boston, 1847, p. 30) N:Published by Keith’s Music Publishing House. B:Dan Emmett – “Second Series Old Dan Emmit’s Original Banjo Melodies “ (Boston, c. 1844) F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/Keith_s_Flute_Instruction_Book/owtKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ledder+breeches%22+%22dan+emmit%22&pg=PA30&printsec=frontcove Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin d/>c/|BGGG|DG GA/B/|c/B/A/G/ ^F/G/A/B/|c2 d>c|BGGG|DG GA/B/|c/B/A/G/ ^F/G/A/B/| c2d z/ c/|dgg^f |gddc|dgg^f|g2 d>c|dgg^f|gd dd/e/|=fF F/G/A/B/| c2 d>c|BGGG|DG GA/B/|c/B/A/G/ ^F/G/A/B/|c2 d>c|BGGG|DGGg|g>d d>c|B>A G||
LEDDER BREECHES. American, Minstrel Air and Tune (2/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Ledder Breeches" was composed by American songwriter and variety performer Daniel Decatur Emmett (-1904), who is often associated with blackface minstrelsy, and who wrote prolifically for the minstrel stage. His "Ledder Breeches" (a dialect version of the well-known reel "Leather Britches") wasa parody on "Brother Jonathan." The c. 1844 sheet music gives that ti was composed by "Old Dan Emmit and dedicated with respect to Alexander Elliott Esq. of Mountvernon Ohio"[1].
- ↑ Mount Vernon, Ohio, was Emmett's home town, where he returned after a lifetime of performing.