Boss Clog Hornpipe (The)

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Theme code Index	315L3L 1L11H2H
Also known as	Dixon's Slide
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Contra
Meter/Rhythm	Hornpipe/Clog
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AA'BB'
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:1000 Jigs and Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 50
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1867
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BOSS CLOG HORNPIPE, THE. AKA and see "Dixon's Slide." American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune appears under the title "Dixon's Slide" in Ira Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940). Ford collected primarily in Missouri and the Mid-West, however, specifics on where he obtained this tune are unknown.

Source for notated version: included in a section of tunes in Ryan's Mammoth from the playing of Jimmy Norton, the "Boss Jig Player"-Norton was presumably a band-leader or principal instrumentalist in the eastern Massachusetts area in the mid-1900's.

Printed source: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 50.

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