Annotation:Empty Pockets
Tune properties and standard notation
EMPTY POCKETS. American, March (2/4 time). A Dorian/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was composed by George Bruce, who, along with Daniel Decatur Emmett (of black-face minstrel fame), wrote a guide for the training of musicians for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bruce & Emmett (Bruce and Emmett's Drummer's and Fifer's Guide), 1862; p. 59. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 66.
Recorded sources: