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 Theme code Index    771H1H 7521
 Also known as    Jump Jim Crow
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Minstrel, Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    
 Structure    ABC
 Editor/Compiler    Elias Howe
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Second Part of the Musician's Companion
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 57
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1843
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 Title of recording    
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 Score   (1)   




X:1 T:Jim Crow M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 57) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G g|f/>d/d/>d/ f/>a/a/>f/|g/f/e/f/ gz/g/|f/g/e/f/ d/e/f/d/|A/B/A/F/ GF/G/| AF/A/ BG/B/|c/B/A/B/ c2|B/c/d/B/ c/d/e/c/|dfg:| K:C g/=f/|e/f/g/e/ f/g/a/f/|e/f/g/e/ d/B/A/G/|e/d/e/c/ f/g/a/f/|e/c/d/B/ cg/f/| e/f/g/e/ f/g/a/f/|e/f/g/e/ d/B/A/G/|e/d/e/c/ f/g/a/f/|e/c/d/B/ c!D.C.!||


X:1 T:Jim Crow M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 7) 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:G g|f/d/d/d/ f/a/a/f/|g/>f/e/f/ gz/g/|f/>g/e/>f/ d/>e/f/>d/|A/>B/A/>F/ G|| A|GB/G/ Ac/A/|B2G2 |c4|B/>c/d/B/ c/>d/e/c/|dfg||


X:2 T:Jim Crow. WHG.050 R:quadrille S:W.H.Giles MS,Bampton,Oxfordshire,1839p53 O:England H:donated by Mrs W.R.Kettlewell to VWML,Apr 1927. A:Bampton, Oxfordshire N:Jim Crow is written on p22, near the tune Jenny Jones. WHG.022. Z:PJHeadford - VMP 2009 M:C L:1/8 Q:2/4=70 K:G g|(fd).d.d fa.a.a|gfef g2zg|fgeg defd|ABAF G2zB| A>BcA cBcA|B2G2 c2zA|B>cdB cdec|d2f2 g2z|]


X:34 T:Jim Crow. Roose.0748 M:C L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 B:J.Roose MS, Manchester 1850 Z:Village Music Project, Steve Mansfield 2019 K:G g2 | f>dd>d f>aa>f | g>fe>d g2 zg | f>ge>f | d>ef>d | A>BA>F G2z2 | A>^GA>B c>Bc>A | B2G2 c4 | B>cd>B c>de>c | d2f2g2 |]


X:1 T:Jim Crown M:C| L:1/8 R:Air N:An odd version of the American blackface minstrel tune "Jim Crow" S:Philip Carolan music manuscript collection N:Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910, Crossmolina, County Mayo), a musically literate N:farmer and fiddler who compiled his ms. probably during 1863-1873. S:Angela Buckley, thesis, “A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of S:Philip Carolan c. 1839-1910, vol. 2”, Waterford Institute of Technology, S:2007, p. 43. Carolan ms. 1, No. 123. K:C A|B>G G>A B>c d2|c>B A>B c2z2|B>c A>B G>A B2|1 D2 D>B, C3:|2 D2 D>B, C3|| z|:D2D>E F2 (F>D)|E2D2F2D2|E>F G>E F>G A>F|1 G2B2c2z2:|2 G2B2c3||


X:3 T:Jim Crow M:2/4 L:1/8 K:D d|c/A/A/B/ c/e/e/c/|d/c/B/c/ d>A|F/G/A/F/ G/A/B/G/|.A.c .d|| d|c/A/A/B/ c/e/e/c/|d/c/B/c/ d>d|c/d/B/c/ A/B/c/A/|E/F/E/C/ D2|| E/^D/E/F/ G/F/G/E/|FD G2|F/G/A/F/ G/A/B/G/|Ac d||