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Birds in the Brook

December 13, 2016

The Leake County Revelers’ Birds in the Brook is unusual in two significant ways: It has an unusually long and complex form It has a short minor-key segment (at rehearsal mark ‘C’), played in unison The tonal relationships between the strains, starting in C major, and moving up to the subdominant F, is typical of marches,…

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Alma Waltz

August 13, 2016

This transcription is based on a performance by the Mississippi Mud Steppers, OKEH 45504. The Mississippi Mud Steppers recording has some unusual harmonies in bars nine and ten that are not reflected in the above transcription. In the recording, the guitar accompaniment plays a chromatic ascending line from C to D, causing bar nine to…

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