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Theme code Index	3H4H3H2H 3H4H5H1H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	C
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon
Tune and/or Page number	p. 18
Year of publication/Date of MS	1843
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Score ()

X:1
T:Coal Black Rose
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Howe - Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:C
egfa | eg d2 | egfa | gB c2 | 
egfa | eg d2 | egfa | gB c2 :|
|: e2f2 | ed c2 | e/e/e/e/ fa | gB c2 | 
e2f2 | ed c2 | e/e/e/e/ fa | gB c2 :||

X:2
T:Coal Black Rose
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 8)
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
Bdce|Bd A2|Bdce|dF G2:|
B2c2| BA G2|B/B/B/B/ ce|dF G2|
B2c2|BA G2 |B/B/B/B/ ce dF G2||

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