Tune Req: Washington Court House

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you know this tune?
From: nikos
Date: 24 Nov 00 - 07:57 PM

This tune is actually named after the town in Ohio - Washington Courthouse. So the sources named illustrate other tunes named after Washington but not after this town. Perhaps this might help.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you know this tune?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 01:07 AM

Then again we do have this little town here in Ohio named Washington Courthouse and one of our members, Irish Rover, lives there.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you know this tune?
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 12:45 AM

Or these:

WASHINGTON AND LEE SWING [1]. American, March (cut time). A Major. Standard. One part. A chromatic swing tune. Source for notated version: Cecil Brower and Cliff Bruner with Milton Brown's Musical Brownies (Texas) [Phillips]. Marimac 9017, Vesta Johnson (Mo.) - "Down Home Rag."

WASHINGTON AND LEE SWING [2]. AKA and see "Washington County."

WASHINGTON COUNTY. AKA and see "Washington and Lee Swing" [2]. Bluegrass, March (cut time). USA. A Major. Standard. One part (Phillips): AB (Brody). Composed by bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, who sided for Bill Monroe for twenty years. Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 285. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 163 (appears as "Washington and Lee Swing" [B]). County 719, Kenny Baker- "Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler." County 2705, Kenny Baker - "Master Fiddler." Rounder 0086, Butch Robbins- "Forty Years Late."

WASHINGTON FUNERAL DIRGE. American, Slow Air or March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard. AB. Bayard identifies this tune as a development of the wedding march in "Lohengrin," though he is unsure whether the tune is named for the Pennsylvania town or the first president. Source for notated version: Mount Pleasant Tablatures (a fife MS from southwestern Pa., 1950's) [Bayard]. Bayard, 1981; No. 24, pg. 27.

WASHINGTON HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Good for the Tongue," "Jenkin's Hornpipe," "The Stony Steps." Scottish, Hornpipe. B Flat Major (Honeyman, Kerr): A Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part) {Brock}. Standard. AABB (Honeyman): AA'BB (Kerr). An early recording of the tune is by accordion player William McElligot in New York in 1934. McElligot was from Newcastle West, County Limerick, but spent most of his life in the United States. Honeyman, 1898; pg. 51. Kerr, Vol. 1; No. 31, pg. 46. Gael Linn 155, Paul Brock - "Mo chairdin." Sue Richards - "Hazel Grove." T:Washington Hornpipe M:4/4 L:1/8 K:A Major ABcd eA (3AAA | fAgA aA (3AAA | fAeA dBcA | (3BcB GB AGFE | ABcd eA (3AAA | fAgA aA (3AAA | fAeA dBcA |1 (3BcB GB A (3EFG :| 2 (3BcB GB A (3F_G^G ||: AD (3DDD BD (3DDD | dcBA BAFD | dcBA BAGF | E2 CE DCB,A, | AD (3DDD BD (3DDD | dcBA BAFD | dcBA BAGF |1 (3EFE CE D (3FG^G :| 2 (EFE CE D2 ||

WASHINGTON QUICKSTEP. AKA and see "Steamboat Quickstep." American, Quickstep (6/8 time). A Major. Standard. AABB. Sanella, "Balance and Swing;" CDSS.

WASHINGTON QUADRILLE. AKA and see "Up and Down Old Eagle Creek," "Taylor's Quickstep." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. C Major ('A' part) & G Major ('B' part). Standard. AA'BB'. Source for notated version: fiddler Andy Palmer of north-central Kentucky group Jimmie Johnson's String Band [Phillips]. Phillips, Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 164. Morning Star 45003, Jimmie Johnson's String Band - "Wink the Other Eye: Old Time Fiddle Band Music from Kentucky" (1980).

WASHINGTON'S GRAND MARCH. AKA and see "(General) Washington's March," "The President's New March." American, March (2/4 time). USA; southwestern Pa., New Hampshire. G Major. Standard. AABB. Linscott (1939) calls it one of New England's favorite tunes for beginning the country dance./ Perhaps the "Washington's March" played by U.S. President John Tyler, reputedly a good fiddler. The tune has been adapted to shape-note hymns of the 19th century. Sources for notated versions: Smith Paine (Wolfeboro, N.H.) [Linscott]: Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1060) [Bayard]. Aird, 1788, Vol. 3, No. 557. Bayard, 1981; No. 366, pg. 359. Howe (Diamond School for the Violin), 1861; pg. 25. Linscott, 1939; pg. 81. Mattson (Old Fort Snelling Instruction Book for the Fife), 1974; pg. 88. Riley's Flute Melodies, Vol. 1, No. 83.

WASHINGTON'S MARCH [1]. AKA and see "Exhibition March No. 1," "Matelotte," "The Black Horse," "Morning Fair," "Texarkana," "The Golden Farmer," "Tomorrow Morning" American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. C Major. Standard. AA'BB. Bayard (1981) identifies this as an international tune (usually played as a march, but sometimes a dancing tune) with numerous titles, "most of them being 'Somebody's March' or 'Some Regiment's March'" (pg. 252). It appears in Boehme (1886, No. 345) as a Dutch Dance, in Forestier & Anderson (Norway Music Album, 1881, No. 5, pg. 114) as a wedding march, and in the Journel of the Welsh Folk Song Society (Vol. 2, Pt. 1, pg. 40) in a vocal set. Source for notated version: Samuel Losch (fiddler from Juniata County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 297, pg. 252.

WASHINGTON'S MARCH [2]. American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard. AB. Source for notated version: St. Clair (elderly fifer from Greene County, Pa., 1960; learned from his father) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 298, pgs. 252-253.

WASHINGTON'S MARCH [3]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. D Major. DDAD. AA'. May be distantly derivative of "Washington's Grand March." Source for notated version: Edwin Hammons via his nephew Burl Hammons (Pocahontas County, West Virginia) [Krassen]. The melody was also played in this tuning by eastern Kentucky fiddler Ed Hayley. Krassen (Masters of Old Time Fiddling), 1983; pg. 81. Yazoo 2103, Eddon Hammons - "American Rural Classics 1927-37."

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Do you know this tune?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 12:36 AM

Copper Family maybe?

Spaw

Subject: Tune Add: WASHINGTON HORNPIPE
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 12:33 AM

Here's a possibility:

X:1
T:Washington Hornpipe, The
R:hornpipe
S:Paul de Grae, Paul Brock, irtrad-l, 11/97
Z:Paul de Grae
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:A
ABcd eA (3AAA | fAgA aA (3AAA | fAeA dBcA | (3BcB GB AGFE | ABcd eA (3AAA | fAgA aA (3AAA | fAeA dBcA |1 (3BcB GB A (3EFG :| 2 (3BcB GB A (3F_G^G ||: K:D AD (3DDD BD (3DDD | dcBA BAFD | dcBA BAGF | E2 CE DCB,A, | AD (3DDD BD (3DDD | dcBA BAFD | dcBA BAGF |1 (3EFE CE D (3FG^G :| 2 (EFE CE D2 ||

Subject: Do you know this tune?
From: nikos
Date: 22 Nov 00 - 11:11 PM

I am looking for a tune called "Washington Courthouse". Several people have heard of it but none know or know of a source or recording for it. Please help!!!