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Dance to the fiddle, march to the fife : instrumental folk tunes in Pennsylvania

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Contributors: Bayard, Samuel Preston.
Format: Musical Score
Language:No linguistic content
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1982.
Subjects and Genres:
Folk dance music > Pennsylvania.
Danse folklorique, Musique de > Pennsylvanie.
Danse folklorique, Musique de > Partitions.
Folk dance music.
Folk dancing > Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania.
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Table of Contents:
  • Neil Gow's rant
  • Millgow's reel
  • The corn-huskers
  • The turkey-egg
  • Katie with the buckles
  • The horse called Rover, or Rooster in the strawpile
  • Cooney in the stubble field
  • All the gals is gone away
  • Chase the squirrel
  • Yankee doodle
  • Sailing down the river on the O-hi-o
  • General Braddock's march
  • Mother says I mustn't
  • Washington funeral dirge
  • Stormstown
  • Port's tune
  • Piece composed by Sylvesky Varner
  • Sunday afternoon
  • Hopple's reel
  • Bob Riddeo, or Bob Riddley
  • French fours
  • Cotillion
  • Straight fours
  • Mr. Hopple
  • Toss the feathers
  • Three little niggers layin' in bed
  • Breakdown
  • Daddy killed the brown bull
  • Dick's handspike
  • Old times
  • Maria Morris tune
  • Mount Pleasant quickstep
  • Little shoes
  • Keep your feet out of the sand
  • Rustic dance
  • Governor Taylor's march
  • Granny will your dog bite (I)
  • Granny will your dog bite (II)
  • Betty Martin
  • Settin' upstairs eatin' all the vittles up
  • Sing ye darkeys sing
  • Hogs in the corn field
  • The rocky mountain
  • Hog rock
  • Up jumped Joe in the middle of it, or The hog rocks
  • Fare you well my Susan, or Frog in the millpond
  • Shelvin' rock
  • The B. and O. Railroad
  • Bill Fulmer's hornpipe
  • It thundered in the east.
  • Germantown
  • Bricklayer's hornpipe
  • Reel and square dance
  • The tune the old cow died of
  • Twilight
  • The blackberry blossom
  • Boyle's reel
  • Hostetler's hornpipe
  • The big chief
  • The grey eagle
  • The spirits of France
  • On my way from here to Wheeling
  • Hell broke loose in Georgia
  • Dogs in the dishes
  • The star hornpipe
  • The white feather
  • Reel from Worth Bryner
  • Rye whiskey
  • Lardner's reel
  • Durrock's hornpipe
  • The Martin quadrille
  • Up in the batten house
  • Sally corn
  • Peter's jacket
  • Rubber dolls
  • The roving sailor
  • Reel in C
  • The butcher's row
  • Opera reel
  • Old number third
  • Pacific slope hornpipe
  • Old mother gum
  • Reel in F
  • Composition of Wilbur W. Neal
  • Monessen
  • Old jakey buzzard
  • Pine top
  • Callicott's quickstep
  • The old town band
  • The lost indian (I)
  • The lost indian (II)
  • Kelly's goat
  • The old cow crossed the road
  • Ellsworth's funeral march
  • Nigger Jim
  • Dow everly
  • Governor King's march
  • Few days
  • Railroad piece, or The railroad
  • The star of Bethlehem
  • Ellsworth funeral dirge
  • Old piss
  • Hog eye an' a 'tater
  • Hog eye
  • Old Joe Clark
  • The wind that shakes the barley
  • Pull down the sheets
  • The lop-eared mule.
  • Ricketts' hornpipe
  • Pigtown
  • Buffalo gals
  • Silver Lake
  • Gilderoy
  • Such a gittin' upstairs
  • Over Windy Hill
  • The Doodletown fifer (I)
  • The Doodletown fifer (II)
  • The white cockade (I)
  • The white cockade (II)
  • The jay bird
  • The blackbird
  • Shanghai
  • The dream quickstep
  • The Oil City quickstep
  • The Tennessee wagoners
  • Ta ra ra boom de ay
  • Injun et a woodchuck
  • Finnegan's wake
  • Black-eyed Susie
  • Keep off the grass
  • The Ayrshire lassie
  • Four o'clock in the morning, or Irish quadrille
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • The rakes of Mallow
  • Little Math Hamilton tune
  • Nixon number two
  • Mary run away with the coon
  • Willie boy
  • The road to Boston
  • Kellogg's quickstep
  • Happy is the miller boy
  • Skip to my Lou
  • John Brown's little indian
  • Reel, or Polka in C
  • Five miles out of town
  • Green grow the rushes, or Over the hills and far away
  • Sooner in the morning
  • Bonnell's quickstep
  • Banjo piece
  • The retreat from the pheasant patch
  • Flushing
  • The Irish volunteer
  • Sam Miller's square dance
  • Bile 'em cabbage down
  • The squirrel hunters
  • Uncle John
  • Over the border : Mexican war
  • The drunken sailor (I)
  • The drunken sailor (II).
  • The drunken sailor (III)
  • Monongahela College
  • Johnson's impeachment
  • The stick beat
  • The flannel jacket
  • Running through the rain to keep your hair dry
  • Bowling Green
  • Abel Browning tune
  • Billy in the lowland
  • Drum tune
  • Over the road
  • Bonaparte's retreat (I)
  • Bonaparte's retreat (II)
  • The old man and old woman a-quarrelin' (I)
  • The old man and old woman a-quarrelin' (II)
  • The old man and old woman scoldin'
  • A drag
  • Sweet Ellen, or Ellum
  • A two-four
  • Lippincott
  • The girl with the blue dress on
  • The bummer reel
  • Shenandoah
  • Miss McLeod's reel
  • The fluter's ball
  • Kate lay sleeping
  • Old bagpipe air
  • Charlie
  • Grand march O'Normal (I)
  • Will Rarie old march (II)
  • Goodbye whiskey
  • Indiana
  • The mountain hornpipe
  • Little Sally Waters
  • Old dead march
  • Susan lick the ladle
  • Marching through Georgia
  • Reel in G
  • Piece in A
  • The mocking bird
  • In the sweet bye and bye
  • Out of the wilderness
  • Sally Goodwin
  • The rogue's march
  • Speed the plough
  • Doran's ass
  • Round up the yearlings (I)
  • Rounding up the yearlings (II)
  • Buena vista
  • The Liverpool hornpipe (I)
  • The Liverpool hornpipe (II)
  • Scotch hornpipe.
  • Down the river
  • Old Aunt Katie
  • The Saratoga hornpipe
  • Oh my foot
  • Band of freemen
  • Up jumped Jinny with her shirt tail torn
  • The cuckoo's nest
  • The wrecker's daughter
  • Pretty Polly
  • Band piece
  • Nigger sick
  • Washington's march (I)
  • Washington's march (II)
  • Blockhouse Dutchman
  • Fife march
  • Fine times at our house
  • The Dusinberry (Jutenberry) march
  • The rocky road to Dublin (I)
  • The rocky road to Dublin (II)
  • Governor Tilford's march
  • Shower Creek (I)
  • Shower Creek (II)
  • A drag
  • The college hornpipe
  • The green fields of America
  • The green fields of Ireland
  • The green fields of Edinburg
  • March learned from a Scottdale drum corps
  • The Arkansas traveller
  • The Boyne water
  • The Staten Island hornpipe
  • Hazel Dean
  • Turkey in the straw
  • The keel row
  • Bunker Hill
  • My love she's but a lassie yet
  • The cackling rooster
  • Mount Pleasant clickstep
  • Dandy Jim from Caroline
  • The chicken reel
  • Leather breeches
  • The Mississippi sawyer
  • General Taylor's march
  • The old blackbird
  • The soldier's joy
  • Sam King's tune
  • The devil's dream
  • Dow Everly tune
  • The Carrolltown breakdown
  • The girl I left behind me.
  • The bucking mule
  • The flowers of Edinburgh (I)
  • The flowers of Edinburgh (II)
  • A four-four march
  • Moniemusk (I)
  • Moniemusk (II)
  • The fisher's hornpipe
  • The road to the isles
  • Paddy on the turnpike
  • The 1812 march
  • Durang's hornpipe
  • Durangoo's hornpipe
  • Buttermilk and cider
  • Hell on the Potomac (I)
  • Hell on the Potomac (II)
  • Hell on the Potomac (III)
  • Sugar in the gourd
  • The loggers' reel
  • The king's march
  • Up jumped the devil
  • A mile from Edinboro' town
  • The shepherd boy
  • The rambler's hornpipe
  • The nightingale
  • Abel Browning breakdown in A
  • Maple sugar
  • Washington's grand march
  • Home sweet home
  • Bill Keim
  • Hail to the chief
  • The cheat river
  • Ben Walker's walk-around
  • Queer's special
  • The barren rocks of Aden
  • The rising sun, or The sons of William
  • The pipers
  • Kniseley's quickstep
  • When I come home
  • The Waterford special
  • Honey Engle's stop beat
  • Up jumped Jinny and she run like hell
  • Centreville
  • Hoover's battery
  • Snappin' bug
  • John Brown's march, or Harper's Ferry
  • Old Green County
  • Vinton's hornpipe
  • The home town band
  • Who hit Nellie with the stove pipe?
  • THe blue bells of Scotland.
  • Liza Jane
  • Slide, Kelly, slide
  • Johnnie Cope
  • Pancake
  • The babes in the woods schottische
  • Schottische, or Polka
  • Schottische, or Polka
  • Alex dice
  • The Mahoning reel, or Schottische
  • Schottische, or Polka, or Reel
  • The Mason-Dixon schottische
  • Right foot, left foot
  • Freddie Wilson's clog, or Hornpipe
  • The darkey's dream
  • Dance me on your knees, Joyce
  • Schottische in F
  • Under the greenwood tree
  • The mountain schottische
  • The Jenny Lind polka
  • Good lager beer
  • The crystal schottische
  • Two-step, or Schottische
  • The Rochester schottische
  • Amsbaugh's schottische
  • Little brown jug
  • Hop waltz
  • Pretty baby
  • The Wright schottische
  • Kerry Fulton's schottische
  • The Greenbriar schottische
  • The honest Irish lad
  • The Irishman's heart to the ladies
  • The peeler and the goat
  • The Catholic boys
  • The Protestant boys
  • The Irish washerwoman
  • Haste to the wedding
  • Jig, or Quadrille
  • Poor old soldier
  • The top of Cork Road
  • Paddy works on the railroad
  • O dear Mother my toes are sore (I)
  • O dear Mother my toes are sore (II)
  • O dear Mother my toes are sore (III)
  • Jig, or Quadrille
  • C. Hawkins favorite
  • Manor Dale
  • The trip to the cottage.
  • The prison in Yorkies-do-well
  • The snowy hill
  • Irish stuff
  • Jiggs on parade
  • My last fall
  • The Sourwood Mountains
  • Tom Well's piece
  • Down on the big sandy
  • Four hundred years old
  • Tennessee hornpipe
  • The log chain
  • Hickity crackity
  • My grandfather was the most wonderful man
  • The Dublin jig
  • The fair
  • Quadrille, or Jig
  • Perrysville fair
  • Square dance, or, Quadrille
  • The republican set
  • Big fat gal's good I know, but a little fat gal's better o!
  • Old Lake Erie
  • Fife march and jig tune
  • Linsey-back
  • The world turned upside down
  • The Campbells are coming
  • The lassie of Gowrie
  • Stoyestown 1812
  • Lanigan's ball
  • Paddy whack
  • Off she goes (I)
  • Off she goes (II)
  • The hundred pipers
  • The bonnie blue flag
  • Hoge's march
  • Stony point (I)
  • Stony point (II)
  • Scottish piece
  • John Thomson's wallet
  • Over the river to Charlie (I)
  • Over the water to Charlie (II)
  • Over the river to Charlie (III)
  • Larry O'Gaff
  • Irish six-eight
  • The Bulltown breakdown
  • An old six-eight
  • Tramp, tramp, tramp
  • Perry's victory
  • Nancy fat
  • Captain Collins
  • The Lisle quickstep
  • The green cockade
  • Rippling water
  • Tuggerman's jig
  • Little burnt potato
  • The Green Country quadrille
  • Eddy sticker's tune
  • Composition of Harmon McCullough
  • Old Amzi Eccles tune
  • The cock of the north
  • Fife march
  • Muncy.
  • Scotch come over the border
  • The lady's disappointment
  • Allegheny county
  • Soldiers' dance
  • The raw recruit
  • Piece in A and E
  • Dance in G
  • The walking lover
  • The mule song
  • Swallow tail
  • The bugs (bogs?) of old Ireland
  • Captain jinks
  • Breakdown
  • My daddy
  • Chapultepec
  • Down tenmile
  • Kitty in the fog, or The kitten and the frog
  • O lassie, art thou sleeping yet?
  • Irish jig fragment
  • Fair and aisy I'll be rid of her, or Fair and aisy I'll get out of it, or Kick the pope
  • The gallant sixty-ninth, or The gals of 'sixty-nine
  • Bully for you
  • Tattoo
  • The Gettysburg march
  • Oho, oho, I've found you out
  • Revellee (reveillee)
  • Neal's cotillion
  • Jig, or Quadrille
  • Rosin the beau
  • Dunn's favorite
  • E pluribus unum
  • O'Connell's welcome to parliament
  • Tustin's favorite
  • Johnny McGill
  • Frank Keeney
  • Martinsburg six-eight time
  • Round the button and through the horn (I)
  • Round the button and through the horn (II)
  • All praise
  • Pop goes the weasel
  • The Scotch laddie
  • Sait Patrick's Day in the morning
  • The Pennsylvania quickstep
  • The skidmore guards
  • Life on the ocean wave
  • The lop-eared mule : Civil War version
  • The Greene County waltz
  • The Portland fancy in waltz time
  • The black diamond waltz
  • The drunken hiccups
  • Johnny's favorite waltz.

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