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Theme code Index	1H1H1H1H 3H3H1H1H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	ABA
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 11
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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Rosa Dear: Annotations

X:1 % T:Rosa Dear M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 11) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. N:It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. N: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) N:and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:D Ad|d2d2 dddd|f3e d3A|A2d2f2 de|fdaf !fermata!e2 AA| d2d2d2 dd|f2e2 d3d|e2f2a2d2|f3e d2!Fine!|| d|e2 ee f2 ee|B2 dc A2 a^g|^gffe e2 fe|e2 f^g a2 g=g| f2e2 dddd|e2 f2 d3d|e2f2 a3d|f3e d2!D.C.!||

Rosa Dear: Annotations