Annotation:Si Perkins Buck and Wing Dance
X:1 T:Si Perkins Buck and Wing Dance M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Schottische B:A.S. Bowman – “J.W. Pepper Collection of Five Hundred Reels, Jigs, B:etc.” (Phila., 1908, No. 99, p. 22) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G {DEF}Gg/e/ d/e/d/B/|G/A/B/G/ Az|{DEF}Gg/e/ d/e/d/B/|A/d/^c/e/ dz| {DEF}Gg/e/ d/e/d/B/|G/A/B/G/ Az|{DEF}GFED|E/G/F/A/ Gz:| |:{DEF}GBFB|EB_EB|D/E/F/G/ A/D/E/F/|G/F/G/B/ dz| {DEF}GBFB|EB_EB|Dz z2|z FG z!D.C.!:|
SI PERKINS BUCK AND WING DANCE. American, Scottische or Reel (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A buck and wing dance was a schottische or reel-like dance that originated with slaves in the United States, primarily in the North Carolina region. The movements are heavy in the feet, with wing-like movements of the knees and elbow as the splay.
A "Si Perkins' Barn Dance" was recorded in 1909 on an Edison Amberol cylinder (No. 133) by Ada Jones and Len Spencer and is perhaps the same tune. There is also a one-act play by William Henry Coyle published in 1910 entitled "Si Perkins, the waiter: rural comedy in one act;" more "Si Perkins" comedies followed. Perkins seems to have been both a character and an actual person (or persons), for there was a Si Perkins Company dating from the 1890's into the next century, that played rural stages in comic performances that included music.
