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Theme code Index	3565 71H2H0
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 5
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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Tune annotations

X:1
T:Louisiana Belle
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Minstrel Tune
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 5)
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|Bd d/d/ z/d/|ee d z/d/|f>f g>g |a2 zd|
Bd dd|ee/g/ d(3d/e/f/|g>g a>f|g2 z2:|
g2d2|e z/e/d2|ee d<d|c>c B2|
g2 d>d|e/e/e/e/ d2|ff/f/ g/g/g|a/a/a/f/ gz||

X:1
T:Louisianna Bell
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Isaac Homan manuscript (mid-19th century, Long Island, NY)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
A|c.e.e.e|f/g/a/f/ e2|ggaa |b/a/g/f/ e/d/c/B/|
c.e.e.e|f/g/a/g/ e2|e/f/g/a/ bc'|a3 ||
(3e/f/g/|b2 e2|ff e2|d/e/f/d/ c/d/e/c/|{c}B/^A/B/c/ B2|
a2 e2|ff e2|(e/f/g/a/) bc'|a3!D.C.!||

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