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 Theme code Index    7b1H54 357b7b
 Also known as    Blackjack Grove
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Mixolydian
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Stacy Phillips
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Traditional American Fiddle Tunes vol. 2
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 21
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1995
 Artist    Biography:Walter McNew
 Title of recording    Black Jack Grove
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Berea College Appalachian Center AC005
 Year recorded    1993
 Media    
 Score   ()   


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BLACK JACK GROVE [1]. AKA - "Blackjack Grove." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Dorian ('B' part) {Phillips, Titon}: A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part) {Silberberg}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberbert): AABB (Phillips, Titon). Phillips notes that his source, Walter McNew, tended to blur the 'C' notes in the 'B' part of his unaccompanied version, resulting in a tonality somewhere between minor and major. Jeff Titon (2001) finds the title in tune lists from Berea College in 1915 and in the 1919 Berea fiddle contest list.

Source for notated version: Walter McNew (Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Ky.) [Phillips, Titon].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 21. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 12. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 13, p. 47.

Recorded sources: Berea College Appalachian Center AC005, Walter McNew - "Black Jack Grove" (1993). Yodel-Ay-Hee 003, "Dirk Powell and John Hermann" (1992). Appalachian Center AC 005, Walter McNew (Rockcastle County, Ky.) - "Blackjack Grove" (Learned from his father, John McNew, who had it from a Wildie, Ky., area fiddler named Uncle Garret Bow).

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