Jim Brown

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Theme code Index	3355L 5L231
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 14
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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Jim Brown: Annotations

X:1 T:Jim Brown M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 14) 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/A/|B/G/G/G/ B/G/G/G/|dA/F/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ GG| B/G/G/G/ B/G/G/G/|dA/F/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ G|| D|G/B/d/f/ gg/g/|g/d/B/G/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ GD| G/B/d/f/ gg/g/|g/d/B/G/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ G:|]

Jim Brown: Annotations