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Notated Music [Rochester Schottische] [music transcription]

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Title

  • [Rochester Schottische] [music transcription]

Names

  • Jabbour, Alan (Transcriber)
  • Rulison, W. H. (Composer)

Created / Published

  • [Between 1966 and 1968]

Headings

  • -  Instrumental music
  • -  Fiddle tunes
  • -  Folk music--Appalachian Region
  • -  Strathspeys
  • -  Schottisches
  • -  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.
  • -  Compass: 12
  • -  Strains: 2 (low-high, 4-4)
  • -  Key: D/A
  • -  Title change: The title appears on the transcription as "Schottische" ["Rochester"]. It is transcribed after "Cabin Creek," near the bottom of the page.
  • -  Rendition: 1-2-1-2-1
  • -  Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQS (aa'bc aa'de qrss' qrtu)
  • -  Handwritten: Played 2 1/2 times thru (ends of course after 1st str.). Triplet rhythm fairly consistent, but sometimes lapses into duplet, (or rather, almost duplet: the 1st note is always a little longer). 1st time recorded.
  • -  Composed by W. H. Rulison
  • -  Henry Reed gave no name for this schottische, but it is one of the best-known American schottisches, with circulation in both North and South. It was composed by W. H. Rulison and published in the 1850s. Rulison was apparently a music master from upstate New York, for in one sheet music edition he dedicates the piece to his students in Buffalo and Rochester. For other nineteenth-century printed sets, see Winner's Excelsior Collection, p. 23; Winner's Dance Music, p. 52; Howe, Leviathan Collection, p. 108. Modern sets sometimes preserve the title "Rochester Schottische," but just as often they offer new titles; see, for example, Adam, Old Time Fiddlers' Favorite Barn Dance Tunes, #61 "Hi-Lo Schottische"; Bayard, Hill Country Tunes, #39 "What the Devil Ails You"; Ford, Traditional Music of America, p. 160; Ruth, Pioneer Western Folk Tunes, p. 11 "Blue Bird Schottische."Henry Reed's performance is interesting for its regular inclusion of a grace-like thirty-second note figure, and for its use of slurs connecting the second and third and the fourth and first notes in each group of four sixteenths.

Medium

  • manuscript; 2 pages

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1967/007: Notebook 3: p. 18b-19a

Source Collection

  • Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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

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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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Chicago citation style:

Jabbour, Alan, and W. H Rulison. Rochester Schottische music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968, 1966] Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000066/.

APA citation style:

Jabbour, A. & Rulison, W. H. (1966) Rochester Schottische music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000066/.

MLA citation style:

Jabbour, Alan, and W. H Rulison. Rochester Schottische music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968, 1966] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000066/>.