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Dance Shoo Fly [music transcription] - Public domain musical sheets

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Dance Shoo Fly [music transcription] - Public domain musical sheets

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Summary

Key: D
Meter: 4/4
Transcribed by Alan Jabbour, from a performance by Henry Reed.
Compass: 13
Strains: 2 (low-high, 4-4)
Title change: This tune is transcribed after "Jump Jim Crow" on the page.
Rendition: 1-2r-1r-2r-1r
Phrase Structure: ABCD QRQS
Stylistic features: Fast tempo, simple noting (lots of eighth notes), syncopation.
Related Tune(s): Ladies Won't You Marry
Handwritten: Recorded: abbaabba
"Shoo Fly" is the tune associated with the "Shoo fly don't bother me" lyrics. It has the feel of a lively dance tune in the melodic style of the later nineteenth century. One hallmark of the style is the implied chord shift from tonic to dominant at the end of the first phrase, remaining in the dominant till the cadence at the end of the second phrase. For instrumental sets of the tune, see Person, A Collection of Popular Airs (1889), p. 9; White's Excelsior Collection, p. 71. Another tune in this collection with a tantalizing resemblance to "Shoo Fly" is "Ladies Won't You Marry" (AFS 13705a54), which Henry Reed played on harmonica.

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Date

01/01/1966
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Contributors

Jabbour, Alan (Transcriber)
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Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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