Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains

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Theme code Index	5115L 3b545
Also known as	Battle of Waterloo, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (2), Bonaparte's March (3), Caledonia March
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AA'BB'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:David Brody
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fiddler's Fakebook (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 51
Year of publication/Date of MS	1983
Artist	Biography:Bob Carlin
Title of recording	Melodic Clawhammer Banjo
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Kicking Mule 209
Year recorded
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BONAPARTE CROSSING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. AKA and see "Battle of Waterloo," "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps," "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine [2]," "Bonaparte's March [3]," "Caledonia March." Old-Time, Breakdown. A Aeolian (Am). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is perhaps comes from a garbled transmission of "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine," or perhaps a deliberate Americanism. There's a story about this tune in Allen H. Eaton, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands (1937, repr. Dover 1973). Tunes at a Knoxville fiddlers' convention included "Napolean Crossing the Rocky Mountains, which several contestants chose to render. This tune seemed to be a particular favorite and one which it was stated was local to that part of Tennessee. This, however, proved to be an error, for it was found to be also popular in parts of North Carolina and in Kentucky. Dean WIlliam Jesse Baird of Berea College heard it in Pine Mountain and tells this story about it: 'Uncle John' delighted in playing for visitors and sooner or later he would say, 'Now, I want to play you my favorite; I calls hit Napolean Crossing the Rocky Mountains.' One day a teacher at Pine Mountain said, 'Uncle John, you mean Napolean Crossing the Alps'. 'I don't know, maybe I do,' he replied. Sometime later he was playing for a visitor and at his usual point announced, 'Now I want to play you my favorite; I calls hit Napolean Crossing the Rockies. Some folks say Napolean never crossed the Rockies, that he crossed the Alps, but historians differ on that point'".

Printed source: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 51.

Recorded source: Kicking Mule 209, Bob Carlin- "Melodic Clawhammer Banjo."

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