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Theme code Index
5155 47b44
Also known as
Swallow Tail
Composer/Core Source
Biography:Bill Lowry
Region
United States
Genre/Style
Contra
Meter/Rhythm
Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of
A
Accidental
1 sharp
Mode
Dorian
Time signature
6/8
History
USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure
AB, AABB
Editor/Compiler
Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title
Book:Hill Country Tunes
Tune and/or Page number
No. 45
Year of publication/Date of MS
1944
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score 1 )
X: 1
T: 45. SWALLOW TAIL
B: Sam Bayard, "Hill Country Tunes" 1945 #45
S: Played by Irvin Yaugher Jr., Mt. Independence, PA, Oct 19 1943. Learned from Bill Lowry, a local fiddler, now deceased.
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Z: 2010 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/HillCountryTunes/45_SwallowTail_Am.abc
K: Ador
e- |\
efe AGA | efe edB | ded GFG | ded dze |
efe AGA | efe gzf | efe edB | A3 A2 || e |
ef^g a2b |[M:9/8] a^/ge g3 d3 |[M:6/8] ef^g a2b |[M:9/8] a^/ge a2z d3 |
[M:6/8] ef^g a2b | a^/ge gz2 | G>Bd edB | A3 A2 |]
