Old Jaw Bone (2)

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 Theme code Index    3535 1H524
 Also known as    Ole Jaw Bone
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 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Minstrel
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
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 Structure    One part
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X:1 T:Old Jaw Bone [2], De M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 10) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:G Bcdd|Bc d2|g>gdB|AB c2|Bcdd|Bc d2|g2 d/e/d/c/ |BGG| eB/B/ eB/B/|ef g2|B/c/c/B/ B/A/A/G/ |G2 Ez|eB/B/ eB/B/|efga|gfe^d|e2 z2| .B.d.A.B|(G/{F/A/}G/B/) D2|B/B/B/B/ AG|FA A2|BdAB|G/F/G/B/ D2|E/G/F/G/ A/G/F/E/ DGGz||


X:776 T:Ole Jaw Bone. Roose.0776, De T:Old Jaw Bone [2] M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=120 N:A minstrel song, a copy can be found here N:https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/020/116 B:J.Roose MS, Manchester, 1850 Q:"Vivace" Z:Village Music Project. Rob Lands 2019 K:G D| Bc dd/d/ | Bc d2 | gg/g/ dd | AB c2 |\ Bc dd/d/ | de e2 | gg/g/ d/d/d/c/ | BG Gz |\ Bd Ac/c/ | Bd D2 | Bd BG | DD G|]