Big Fancy

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Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of
Accidental
Mode
Time signature
History	USA/Upland South"USA/Upland South" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
Structure	AB'ABCCCCCC'
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist	Edden Hammons
Title of recording	The Edden Hammons Collection vol. 1
Record label/Catalogue nr.	West Virginia University Press SA-1
Year recorded	1999
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BIG FANCY. Old-Time, Breakdown. AEae or ADae tunings (fiddle). AB'ABCCCCCC'. The tonality vacillates between A and D. In the repertoire of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, fiddler Edden Hammons, who adds an extra beat in the first strain in the repeat, but not at the end of the second time through the strain (i.e. just before the second strain). The second part (played a variable number of times, but usually six), is played by the source with an extra beat added as it goes back to the first part. Alan Jabbour says he knows of "no other clear variants of the tune, though it bears a general resemblance to many other older tunes from the region."

Recorded source: West Virginia University Press SA-1, "The Edden Hammons Collection, vol. 1" (1999).

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