Notated Music Image 1 of Natchez [Christmas Morning] [music transcription]

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About this Item

Title

  • Natchez [Christmas Morning] [music transcription]

Names

  • Jabbour, Alan (Transcriber)

Created / Published

  • [Between 1966 and 1968]

Headings

  • -  Instrumental music
  • -  Fiddle tunes
  • -  Folk music--Appalachian Region
  • -  Breakdowns
  • -  Reels
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Sheet Music
  • -  Music score
  • -  United States -- Virginia -- Giles County -- Glen Lyn

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Sheet Music
  • Music score

Notes

  • -  Meter: 4/4
  • -  Transcribed by Alan Jabbour, from a performance by Henry Reed.
  • -  Key: A
  • -  Title change: The title appears on the transcription as "Natchez." It is transcribed after "Unnamed," near the bottom of the page.
  • -  Strains: 2 (high-low, 2-4)
  • -  Rendition: (1)-2-1r-2-1r-2-1r-2-1r-2
  • -  Phrase Structure: AB QR (abac qrst qrsc)
  • -  Compass: 15 (or 11 plus low A drone on G-string)
  • -  Related Tune(s): Brown's Dream
  • -  Related Tune(s): Paddy on the Turnpike
  • -  Handwritten: Played thru 5 times (minus 1st str of 1st time). Other var. (in bowing) not noted below.
  • -  This is not the usual "Natchez" (for which see AFS 13705a35), but another tune. The title became attached to the present tune by accident as Henry Reed continued to try to recollect the tune he usually called "Natchez." It is a tune in A with a consistently minorish cast that appears in sets widely but thinly distributed across the Upper South. There is no consistency to its title, and its low strain is variable and has something of the character of filler. An apparent nineteenth-century example is Coes, George H. Coes' Album of Music, p. 3 "Watermelon Jig." Twentieth-century examples are Morris, Old Time Violin Melodies #40 "The Lonesome Road"; Thede, The Fiddle Book, p. 76 "Dust in the Lane, or Cotton Pickin' Time"; and "Shelvin' Rock," a 1960s recording fiddled by French Carpenter on the LP record Old-Time Music from Clay County, West Virginia (Folk Promotions 11567-11568). Burl and Sherman Hammons of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, played a version that they called "Christmas Morning." Henry Reed, in searching for the title, once remarked that it might have been something about "Brown's Dream"; that is one of the names of another tune from the Upper South, represented in this collection under the title "Paddy on the Turnpike."

Medium

  • manuscript; 2 pages

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1967/007: Notebook 3: p. 27b-28a

Source Collection

  • Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit line

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Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1 (AFC 1967/007), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 2 (AFC 1969/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Fiddle tunes of the old frontier: the Henry Reed collection online presentation (AFC 1999/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Jabbour, Alan. Natchez Christmas Morning music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968, 1966] Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000040/.

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Jabbour, A. (1966) Natchez Christmas Morning music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000040/.

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Jabbour, Alan. Natchez Christmas Morning music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968, 1966] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000040/>.