O! Susanna

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Theme code Index	3h5H5H1H 3H2H2H2H
Also known as	Oh Susannah, Susanne Don't You Cry
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel, Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 4
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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O! Susanna: Annotations

X:1 T:O! Susanna M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Song Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 4) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:D d/e/|fa ab|af d>e|ff ed|e3 d/e/|fa ab|af de|ff ee|d3|| g2g2|b b2b|aa fd|e3 d/e/|fa ab|af de|ff ee|d3:|]

O! Susanna: Annotations