Getting Up the Stairs

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 Theme code Index    3211 325L5L
 Also known as    Such a Gettin' Upstairs (1)
 Composer/Core Source    Clyde Davenport
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    3 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    USA(Upland South)
 Structure    AA'BB'
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Clare Milliner & Walt Koken
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 235
 Year of publication/Date of MS    2011
 Artist    Clyde Davenport
 Title of recording    Gettin' Up The Stairs: Traditional Music From The Cumberland Plateau Volume 1
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    County 786
 Year recorded    1986
 Media    
 Score   (1)   



X:1 T:Getting up the Stairs N:From the playing of fiddler Clyde Davenport (Ky.) N:Davenport (b. 1921) was born in Blue Hole Hollow, near Mt. Pisgah on the N:Cumberland Plateau in south-central Kentucky, not far from the border with N:Tennessee. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:AEae or GDgd tuning (fiddle) Q:"Quick." D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/getting-stairs D:Field Recorders Collective FRC 104, "Clyde Davenport, vol. 2" (2005) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A |:{B}ABcd efed|cABG [A,3E3]A-|c(ABA) A2AA|c(ABA) [A,3E3]A| c(ABA) A2AA|1c(ABA) [A,4E4]:|2c(ABA) A2 AA|{B}ABcd efed| cABG [A,4E4]||:ABcd e4|e(fae) fedf|edcA d2[df]d| e2 ef afed||1cABA A2A2:|2cABG [A,4E4]||