Dandy Broadway Swell
X:1 T:Dandy Broadway Swell M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 15) 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:D a/g/|f>f e>e|d>d AA|dd/f/ ea|f2 zf| ea ea|ec ee|ceBe|A2z|| A/A/|g>f ed|c<e AA|gf gf|g2 zA| df !fermata!fd|eg gb|af ge| d2z|| A|f>^e f>e|f>^e f>e|f>f a>g|e2 zA| df fd|gb !fermata!bb/b/|b/a/g/f/ a/g/f/e/|d2 z||
X:8
T:De Dandy Broad Way Swell. Roose.0793
M:C
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
Q:"^Con Spirito"
W:two sharps in ms. The tune actually seems to be in G. The c#'s look and sound like a mistake.
N: Bar 1 is written with a redundant bar line after its second beat, omitted here
B:J.Roose MS, Manchester, c1850
Z:Village Music Project. John Gibbons, 9/2019
K:G
D | "_Key sig two sharps in ms"G>G GG G>G GG | G>G GG G3 G | G>G GG G>G GG | G>E EE A3 D |
AA AA AA AA | AA AA A3 A | A>A A>A A>A A>A | A>A BA G3 ||
M: 6/8
Q:3/8=110
|:G/A/ | B2B B2B | c2c c2c | B2B B2B | A2 z z2 A |
B2B B2B | c2d e2 !fermata!g | d2c B2A |G2 z z2:|