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The Westphalia Waltz is an historic Texas waltz by Cotton Collins, a fiddler with the Lone Star Playboys, named after the town of Westphalia, Texas. [2] [3]The Westphalia Waltz melody is derived from a well known Polish tune that goes by several names, among them "Pytala Sie Pani" and "Wszystkie Rybki."
That version, according to Alan Jabbour, supplanted an earlier tune played by Santford Kelly from Morgan County, Kentucky, [5] which is now represented by the tune "Yew Piney Mountain". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Yew Piney Mountain variant is also called "Garfield's Blackberry Blossom", perhaps to distinguish it from the earlier version. [ 8 ]
Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka. When the fiddle is accompanied by banjo, guitar, mandolin, or other string instruments, the configuration is called a string band. The types of tunes found in old-time fiddling are called "fiddle tunes ...
a 1 a 2 •b 1 b 2 •c 2 c 3 •d 2 d 3 •e 2 e 3 •f 2 f 3 •g 2 g 3 •a 2 a 2 •d 3 d 3 •f 3 f 3 •a 3 a 3 •d4•f4 Europe [ * ] The number of strings and courses on a lute can vary widely depending on period and geographical region.
"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann 's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young , Opus 68.
The canonical American fiddle tune, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" was written by Charlie Daniels as an interpretation the "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" by Vassar Clements and has been covered innumerable times. Although classified as country rock, the tune uses licks based on old-time fiddle playing and rock guitar riffs. Unlike most old-time ...
The fiddle may be re-tuned in any number of ways in these musical idioms, but there are two common re-tunings. While the standard tuning for open strings of the violin is GDAE—with the G being the tuning of the lowest-pitched string and the E being the tuning for the highest-pitched string—fiddlers playing tunes in the key of D major ...
Mandola: C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4 (same as standard viola tuning) Mandolin: G 3 D 4 A 4 E 5 (same as standard violin tuning) Pipa: A 2 D 3 E 3 A 3 (most common and used in Chinese orchestra; several other tunings exist) Balalaika (Prima): E 4 E 4 A 4 (the two identical Es are on strings of different gauges) Requinto Jarocho: A 3 D 3 G 3 C 4 (G string ...