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 Theme code Index    13 42 32 15L
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Contra
 Meter/Rhythm    Hornpipe/Clog
 Key/Tonic of    B
 Accidental    2 flats
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:William Bradbury Ryan
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Ryan's Mammoth Collection
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 148
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1883
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
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BUENA VISTA [1]. American, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There are directions to a square dance of the same name in Ryan's Mammoth/Cole's 1000. The title has Mexican-American War associations.

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 112. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 148.


X:1
T:Buena Vista [1]
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
S:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Bb
d/c/ | B/A/B/c/ d/c/d/B/ | e/f/e/d/ cf/e/ | d/f/B/d/ c/e/A/c/ | B/A/B/G/ F(d/e/) | 
f/b/d/f/ B/d/F/B/ | D/F/B/d/ fe/d/ | e/g/f/e/ d/c/B/A/ | BBB :|
|: c/B/ | A/B/G/A/ Ff/e/ | d/e/c/d/ Bg/f/ | e/c/f/e/ | d/B/f/d/ | c/B/A/G/ FG/A/ | 
B/A/B/c/ d/c/d/B/ | e/f/e/d/ cf/e/ | d/f/B/d/ c/e/A/c/ | BBB :||


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