Notated Music [West Virginia Gals] [music transcription]

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • [West Virginia Gals] [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

  • -  Title change: The title appears on the transcription as "Unnamed."
  • -  Meter: 4/4
  • -  Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-4)
  • -  Compass: 15
  • -  Transcribed by Alan Jabbour, from a performance by Henry Reed.
  • -  Key: A
  • -  Rendition: tag-1r-2r-1r-2r-1r-2r-tag
  • -  Phrase Structure: AAAB QRQ'B' (abab abcd qrst qr'c'd')
  • -  Stylistic features: Lively tempo, slurs in bowing. On the third time through, second strain, his bow catches on the fiddle instead of the G-string, causing a momentary blank space. He complained about this later. Someone picks up a guitar and trying it out in the background.
  • -  Handwritten: card: If You Want to Go A-courting. Played thru 3 times w. minor variations in notes and slurring.--1st time transcribed.
  • -  The tune appears to be an instrumental version of a song known in older Appalachian tradition (see Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, vol. 2, 6, #75-A, "If You Want to Go A-Courting") and recorded on early hillbilly records. Though Henry Reed gave the tune no title, the Hollow Rock String Band recorded it as "West Virginia Gals" (Rounder 0024), the title which is adopted here. The song typically repeats the final phrase, making a five-phrase tune. The high strain of the fiddle tune corresponds to the song, though it eliminates the repeated fourth phrase, and the low strain is a kind of arpeggiated filler.

Medium

  • manuscript; 1 page

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1967/007: Notebook 2:43

Source Collection

  • Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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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. West Virginia Gals music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968, 1966] Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000005/.

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Jabbour, A. (1966) West Virginia Gals music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000005/.

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Jabbour, Alan. West Virginia Gals music transcription. [Between 1966 and 1968, 1966] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000005/>.