Black Hills Waltz (The)

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Theme code Index	111 331
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Waltz/Valse/Vals
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History	USA/Southwest"USA/Southwest" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Larry V. Shumway
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Frontier Fiddler
Tune and/or Page number	p. 265
Year of publication/Date of MS	1990
Artist	Biography:Kenner Karchner
Title of recording	New Beehive Songster vol. 1: Early Recordings of Pioneer Folk Music.
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Okehdodee OK75003
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

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BLACK HILLS WALTZ. American, Waltz. USA, Arizona. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Shumway). Kartchner said, "it goes at least back to 1890." There was a "Black Hills Waltz" composed in 1877 by H.R. Marcyes, but it is a different melody than Kartchner's "Black Hills Waltz."

Source for notated version: Kenner C. Kartchner (Arizona) [Shumway].

Printed source: Shumway (Frontier Fiddler), 1990; p. 265. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 11.

Recorded sources: County 2730, Rafe Stefanini - "Glory on the Big String." Okehdodee OK75003, Kenner Karchner - "The New Beehive Songster vol. 1: Early Recordings of Pioneer Folk Music." Rounder CD 0359, Skip Gorman - "Lonesome Prairie Love" (1996).

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