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Hill country tunes : instrumental folk music of southwestern Pennsylvania collected and edited by Samuel Preston Bayard
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA GR 46.P46 B3 1969
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Series:
- Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society ; v. 39.
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--Pennsylvania.
- Folk music.
- Folk songs, English--Pennsylvania--Instrumental settings.
- Folk songs, English.
- Folk songs, English--Instrumental settings.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 8, [122] pages of music : portrait ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Instrumental folk music of southwestern Pennsylvania
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kraus Reprint Co., 1969.
- Contents:
- The blackbird
- The blacksmith
- Bonaparte crossing the Alps
- Bonaparte's retreat
- The bonny maid
- Buffalo gals
- Buttermilk and cider
- Cloud's reel
- The cottage by the sea
- The cuckoo's nest
- Dance tune
- Down yonder
- Dream song
- The drunken hiccoughs
- Farewell to whiskey
- Fillmore Provance tune
- Fine times at our house
- Fire in the mountain
- The flowers of Edinburgh
- Forty miles
- The freemason's march
- G. Rock's hornpipe
- Guilderoy
- Hagantown gals
- Hang on
- Harry Cooper
- Haste to the wedding
- High level
- Hog eye and a 'tater
- The honeycomb rock
- Hornpipe
- I'll dance a jig and I'll dance no more
- Jinny in the lowlands
- John Newgrant come home with a pain in his head
- Johnny get your hair cut
- Johnstown girls
- The king's head
- Laney tunin' his fiddle
- Lardner's reel
- Leather breeches
- Little hornpipe
- The lop-eared mule
- MacDonahue's hornpipe
- Maggots in the sheep hide
- March
- The McClellantown hornpipe
- Muddy water
- O dear mother my toes are sore
- The old man and old woman scoldin'
- Old march
- Old reel
- Over the stump and back again
- Paddy on the turnpike
- Patty on the tunpike
- Quadrille
- Ranahan's march
- Second part of Ranahan's march
- The red brick house in Georgia town
- The red headed girl
- Reel
- The road to Boston
- Rock's hornpipe
- The Rocky Mountain hornpipe
- Rolling off a log
- Rosemont quadrille
- Schottische
- The snouts and ears of America
- Stop tune
- Swallow tail
- Sweet Ellen
- Take off your hat to the ladies
- Tiddle took todfish
- Waltzing with the one I love
- What the devil ails you?
- Whiskey
- The wind that shook the barley
- The yellow heifer.
- Notes:
- Unaccompanied melodies.
- Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1944 (Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society ; v. 39).
- Includes commentary on each song.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- OCLC WorldCat Holdings
- HSP and Balch Non-English
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hill country tunes.
- OCLC:
- 887629
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