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Theme code Index	1H1H1H1H 1H1H56
Also known as	Virginia Reel (1)
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	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, AABB'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 7
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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X:1
T:Old Dan Tucker
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:D
(3A/B/c/|dd (3ddd|dddA|dd df|AA BA|dd(3ddd|
dd dA|dd df|AABA||f f/f/ f2|edBd|e e/e/ e2 |
AABA|f f/f/ f2|edBd|ed/e/ fe|d2||

X:1
T:Old Dan Tucker
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:D
(3A/B/c/|dddA|dd dA/A/|ddef|AABc|dddA dd dA/A/|
ddef AAB::d|f>f f2|ed Bd|e>e ef|AA Bd|
f>f a2|fd Bd|e>e ef|1 AA B:|2 Ac d2||

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