Waltz Tune: Midnight on the Water (Luke Thomasson)

Subject: Tune Add: Midnight on the water
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 05 Nov 01 - 03:33 PM

I can't find a tune for this in the DT or in a quick Forum look-see, so am posting the Miditext below.

This version is taken from The Fiddler's Fakebook, ISBN 0-8256-0238-6, p. 187, and lists Luke Thomasson as the author.

Lin

MIDI file: MDNTWTR.MID

Timebase: 1024

TimeSig: 3/4 24 8
Key: D
Tempo: 096 (625000 microsec/crotchet)
Name: Acoustic Grand Piano
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ABC format:

X:1
T:Acoustic Grand Piano
M:3/4
Q:1/4=96
K:D
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Subject: Tune Req: Midnight on the Water
From: banjomad (inactive)
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 07:28 AM

Hi, anyone out there in Mudcat land know where I can get the dots for
that great Texan waltz Midnight on the Water.
Thanks in anticipation, Dave

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Midnight on the Water
From: nutty
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 07:55 AM

Hi banjo .... There's a Midi file of the tune on this 'Old Time Music' site.

Midnight on the water

If you can't find the sheet music anywhere you can drop the Midi file into Noteworthy Composer or a similar programme and get it converted into dots.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Midnight on the Water
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 08:20 AM

From JC's Tunefinder - if you look for tunes a lot, you might want to bookmark it. Great site.

Here's the search for Midnight on the Water with links to multiple files with multiple formats.
Here's a GIF of the dots from that search (the text looks like it got a bit messed up in the scanning process).
Here's another with some different chords.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Midnight on the Water
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 08:25 AM

Midnight on the Water, from JC's ABC tune finder.
~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Midnight on the Water
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 08:29 AM

The Fiddler's Companion: Midnight on the Water:

MIDNIGHT ON THE WATER. Old-Time, Waltz. USA, Texas. D Major. DDAD. AABB (Spandaro): AA'BB' (Brody, Matthiesen, Reiner & Anick). This popular composition is usually credited to Texas fiddler Luke Thomasson, although it has been published that Luke's son Benny (a famous Texas-style fiddler who popularized the melody) long remembered the night he heard both his father and uncle composing the tune on the family porch (c. 1900?). Several sources have noted this tune's resemblance to an Oklahoma-collected tune called "Old Paint," and there is an ongoing debate about whether "Midnight" is derivative of "Paint" (or vice versa). The Library of Congress recording "Cowboy Songs, Ballads, and Cattle Calls from Texas" (LOC lp L28), collected by John A. Lomax and edited by Duncan Emrich, has a version of the "Paint" song by Jess Morris which has quite similar melodic material with "Midnight on the Water." The liner notes to the album point out that Morris was born in 1878 and would perhaps have been contemporary with the Thomassons, who, like Morris, lived in the Texas panhandle. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 187. Matthiesen (The Waltz Book), 1992; pg. 35. Reiner & Anick (Old Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; pg. 137. Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; pg. 21. CCF2, Cape Cod Fiddlers - "Concert Collection II" (1999). Columbia C 33397, Dave Bromberg - "Midnight on the Water" (1975). County 724, Benny Thomasson (Texas) - "Country Fiddling from the Big State." County CD2712, Art Stamper (Ky.) - "The Lost Fiddler" (c. 1982). Front Hall 01, Fennigs All Stars (New York) - "The Hammered Dulcimer." Green Linnet GLCD 3105, Aly Bain - "Lonely Bird" (1996. Learned from Jay Ungar). Philo 1023, Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy (New York) - "Songs, Ballads and Fiddle Tunes" (1975. Learned from the playing of Fennig's All Stars). Revonah RS-932, The West Orrtanna Stringband (Pa.) - "An Orrtanna Home Companion" (1978). Rounder 0068, Mark O'Conner- "Pickin' in the Wind."
T:Midnight on the Water
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:D
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|:(3ABc|d4 de|d2c2 Bc|d4B AF|D4 d2|e4 ef|e2d2e2|f3a fe|d2B2c2|d4 de|
d2c2Bc|d4B AF|D4 DE|F2A2B2|A2F2 DE|F2 AFEF|D4:|

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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Midnight on the Water
From: banjomad (inactive)
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 04:38 PM

Thanks you all, just what I needed.
Dave