Belle of the Stage

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Theme code Index	5353H 6464H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Contra
Meter/Rhythm
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AA'BB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:William Bradbury Ryan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Ryan's Mammoth Collection
Tune and/or Page number	p. 159
Year of publication/Date of MS	1883
Artist	Biography:Oisíin McAuley
Title of recording	From the Hills of Donegal
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Compass Records 7 4446 2
Year recorded	2007
Media
Score ()

BELLE OF THE STAGE. American, (Lancashire) Clog. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Composed by Edwin Christie, a journeyman composer in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the latter 19th century who contributed several tunes to Ryan's Mammoth Collection. Not to be confused with the famous blackface minstrel Edwin P. Christy of Christy's Minstrels.

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 121. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 159.

Recorded sources: Compass Records 7 4446 2, Oisíin McAuley - "From the Hills of Donegal" (2007).

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T:Belle of the Stage
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R:(Lancashire) Clog
S:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
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