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Sheet Music for "Rustic Dance [2]"Rustic Dance [2]Rustic Reel [2]Book: Ford – Traditional Music in America (1940)Transcription: AK/Fiddler’s Companion



RUSTIC REEL [2]. AKA and see "Off She Goes (1)," "Off She Goes for Butter and Cheese," "Peel the Willow," "Old Virginia Reel (2)," "Up She Got and Off She Went," "Off She Goes for Butter and Cheese," "Rustic Dance (2)." American, Jig and Quadrille (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. As with "Rustic Reel (1)," the title is here taken from the name of the dance, for which any lively twenty-four bar piece of music will suffice. See note for "annotation:Rustic Reel (1)" for more.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 52. Howe (School For the Violin), 1851; p. 39.

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