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ZACK FROM TACKUS. Old‑Time. The title appears in a list of traditional
Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph,
published in 1954.
ZACK WHEAT’S PIECE. Old‑Time,
Breakdown. USA, Missouri. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. “Zack Wheat’s Piece” is
one of the ‘100 essential Missouri fiddle tunes’ according to Missouri fiddler
Charlie Walden. According to Christeson (1973) the fiddler named in the title,
Zack Wheat, was an earlier musician of some renown who lived near Argyle,
Missouri. Interestingly, there was a baseball player named Zack Wheat whose
career spanned the years 1909 to 1927. Wheat played primarily for the Brooklyn
Dodgers and was proficient enough to have been elected to the Hall of Fame in
1959. His batting was prodigious: he won the National League batting title in
1918 (.335) and batted over .300 a total of fourteen times compling a lifetime
average of .317. It is unknown whether there is any connection between the
ballplayer and the tune, however, there is a small state park dedicated to Zack
Wheat (the ballplayer) in the Camden/Morgan County area of Missouri, not far
from Osage County, Missouri, where the town of Argyle (the home of Christeson’s
fiddler) is located; a strange coincidence. The second part resembles the
second part of a Pennsylvania‑collected schottische in Bayard (1981; No.
401, pgs. 381‑382). Source for notated version: George Helton (Maries
County, Missouri) [Christeson]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddler’s Repertory, vol. 1), 1973; pg. 65. Silberberg (Tunes
I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; pg. 172.
X:1
T:Zack
Wheat’s Piece
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:D
D/F/|AA/B/
AA/d/|f/d/e/d/ ff/e/|dA/B/c/ d/B/A/G/|F/D/F/D/ EF/G/|
AA/B/
AA/d/|f/d/e/d/ ff/e/|d/A/B/c/ d/B/A/G/|F/D/E/F/ D:|
|:f/g/|af/g/
ab/a/|g/f/e/f/ gf/e/|d/A/B/c/ d/B/A/G/|F/D/F/D/ E f/g/|
af/g/
ab/a/|g/f/ef/ gf/e/|d/A/B/c/ d/B/A/G/|F/D/E/F/ D:|
ZAKYNTHOS. Irish, Jig. A Minor. Standard tuning. Composed by
Roger Wilson. The title refers to one of the Greek islands.
X:1
T:Zakynthos
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
D:Eliza
Carthy
K:Aminor
a2a
gag|e2a a2g|ecc BcB|AFF F3|EAB cBA|FAB cBA|B2B edB|Bcd cBA:||
|:EAB
cBA|FAB cBA|B2B edB|1Bcd cBA:|2c2B2A2||
|:d2d3c|dc2
B2A|d2d2cd|1B3A3:|2e3e3||
ZARA JIG.
American, Jig. A Major ('A' part) & E Major ('B' part). Standard tuning.
AABB. Ford (Traditional Music in
ZEAK
WALTZ. English, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB.
Raven (English Country Dance Tunes),
1984; pg. 179.
X:1
T:Zeak Waltz
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:B_
F2|BABc B2
dc|BABc B2 cd|edcB ABcB|AGF=
BABc
B2 dc|BABc B2 cd|edcB ABcA|B2 BB B2:|
|:d2|e2c2
cece|d2B2 BdBd|cdcB AGF=E|F2FF F2 cd|
e2c2 cece|d2B2 BdBd|cdcB ABcA|B2 BB B2:|
ZEEK BACKUS REEL. American, Reel. G Dorian. Standard tuning. AA’BB.
Zeek Backus, or Zeke Backus, was a contributor to several of the tunes in the
Howe and Ryan publications from the mid-to-latter 19th century. Many
of those Howe collected tunes from were
X:1
T:Zeek
Backus Reel
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Howe
– 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
Dorian
c>F
|| B/G/F/E/ D/C/{D}C/B,/ | D/G/{A}G/F/ G/A/B/c/ | d/B/c/A/ B/G/A/F/ |1
D/G/{A}G/F/
G/B/d/B/ :|2 D/G/{A}G/F/ G || d/c/ | Bd/f/ b/d/f/d/ |
{d}c/B/d/f/
g/d/f/d/ | Bd/f/ b/d/f/d/ | c/B/d/c/ B/G/G/B/ | Bd/f/ b/d/f/d/ |
c/B/d/f/
g/d/f/d/ | b/b/b/f/ f/f/f/d/ | c/B/d/c/ B/G/G/B/ :|
ZENDA
WALTZ. AKA and see "La
Zenda Waltz," "Lucenda Waltz,"
"Zender Waltz," "Zinder Waltz." Canadian, Waltz. A Major ('A'
part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning. AB (Phillips): ABB (Messer).
Frank Nims writes that the “Zenda Waltz” was “composed by Frank M. Witmark around 1896. It was
written as incidental music for a stage version of the hit novel The
Prisoner of Zenda (1894), an adventure set in the imaginary Balkan
ZENDER('S)
WALTZ. See "Zenda Waltz."
ZEPHYR BREEZES. English, Waltz. G Major (‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’
parts) & C Major (‘D’ part). Standard tuning. ABBCCDD. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes),
1999; No. 181, pg. 48.
ZEPHYRS AND FLORA.
English,
ZEPPELIN, THE.
Scottish, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning.
X:1
T:The
Zeppelin
C:J.
Scott Skinner
S:The
Monekie Series no.3 "The Laird o' Thrums"
B:NLS
Scop.2.4
N:Humorous
Hornpipe
N:*
The Audience clap their hands in imitation of
N: the Allied Shots bringing down the Monster.
Z:Jack
Campin, Oct 2000
N:I
added the natural marking in bar 10
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:A
E2|\
{B}A>GA>B
c>de>c |d>cd>e f>ga>f|e>a(g>a) e>cA>c |
B2"*"e2"*"e2
E2 |
A>GA>B
c>de>c |d>cd>e f>ga>f|e>(ag>)f e>cd>B |{B}c2"*"A2"*"A2 :|
e2|\
a>ga>f
g>^^fg>e|f>^ef>^d =e>de>c|d>cd>B c>^Bc>A |
B2"*"e2"*"e2 .E2
{B}A>GA>B
c>de>c |d>cd>e f>ga>f|e>(ag>)f (3efe
(3dcB|{B}c2"*"A2"*"A2
z2||
ZINDER
WALTZ. AKA and see "Zenda Waltz."
ZIG-ZAG HORNPIPE/CLOG. AKA and see "Fred Wilson's Clog," "Cincinatti Hornpipe [1],"
"Harvest Home [1]," "Dundee Hornpipe," "Standard Hornpipe," "Cork Hornpipe," "Kildare Fancy," "Cliff Hornpipe," "Ruby Lip," "Higgins' Hornpipe," "Kephart's Clog" (Pa.), "Snyder's Jig" (Pa.). Scottish, Old‑Time;
Hornpipe.
X:1
T:Zig-Zag
Clog
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Clog
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
A/F/ |
D/F/A/F/ E/G/B/G/ | F/A/d/e/ f/d/A/F/ | Gg/f/ e/d/c/d/ | e/d/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ |
D/F/A/F/
E/G/B/G/ | F/A/d/e/ f/d/A/F/ | Ge/d/ d/A/B/c/ | dfd :: c/d/ | e/A/A/A/ f/A/A/A/
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g/A/f/A/
e/A/A/A/ | e/A/f/A/ g/A/f/A/ | e/d/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ | D/F/A/F/ E/G/B/G/ |
F/A/d/e/
f/d/A/F/ | Ge/d/ c/A/B/c/ | dfd :|
ZINGER. Old‑Time,
Breakdown.
ZIP
COON. See "Old
Zip Coon."
ZIP COON STOMP. Old‑Time. The title appears in a list of
traditional
ZODIAC. English, Waltz. G Major. Standard tuning.
AABBCCDD. Gibbons originally set the tune in the key of B flat in his ms. The
melody also appears in the music manuscript of fiddler John Burk, dated 1821,
set also in B flat albeit in the time signature of 6/8. Source for notated
version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons
(1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner]. Sumner (
ZOLLIE'S RETREAT. AKA -
“Zolly’s Retreat.” Old‑Time, Breakdown.
DDad tuning. Source:
***
The death of General Zollicoffer.
Harpers Weekly.
***
Augusta Heritage, AHR-014 – “Folk Music
& Lore of the Civil War” (1994). County 786, "Traditional Music From
the
ZONEY'S RANT. AKA and see "Cotillon (Youth's the Season),"
"Tony's Rant." English, Air.
The tune appears in the third volume of Playford's Dancing Master c. 1726. It also appears in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera of 1728, under the
title "Youth's the season made for joys." Kidson (1922) identifies
the tune as a French cotillion.
ZORINKSI. English,
Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. Barnes (English
Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; pg. 148.
ZOUAVE
QUICK STEP.
American, Quickstep (2/4 time). D Major (‘A’ part) & G Major (‘B’
and ‘C’ parts). Standard tuning. AABBCC. From the manuscripts of Setauket, Long
Island, painter and fiddler William Sidney Mount, on a page headed by the note “From
Anderson Hood – his band – June.” The
year is probably 1863, as a tune at the bottom of the page, written at a
different (presumably later) time, is dated August, 1863. A zouave in this context was a Civil War
era soldier whose unit was patterned after the French zouaves, a name derived
from the Zouaoua, a fiercely
independent Kabyli tribe living in the rocky hills of Alegeria and
Morroco. Although the original colonial
units were comprised of members of this tribe and other North Africans, the
zouaves became increasingly comprised of native Frenchmen. However, the distinctive uniform was
retained, patterned after traditional North African dress. The zouaves were a
well-trained and a spectacularly effective fighting force, which (along with
the lure of those natty uniforms!) is why they were imitated by American units
prior to and during the beginning of the Civil War.
X:1
T:Zouave Quick
Step
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:William Sidney
Mount manuscripts, dated August, 1863.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
A2B2 | Ad d2 |
cBAG | FG A2 A2B2 | Ad d2 | eABc | d2d2 :||
K:G
e2e2 | f2f2 | gf
ge | fg a2 | e2e2 | f2f2 | gf ge | d2d2 :||
d2d2 | dc B2 | cB cA | Bc d2 | d2e2 | dc
B2 | cB cA| G2 G2 :|
ZWEITRITT.
German. The second strain of this tune has long been in international currency
and appears in the English "Three Meet"
and "The Pleasures of
the Town [2]," and the American "Little Shoes" (2nd part), "The Muses" (1st part), "Casey's Hornpipe" (1st part), and
an untitled breakdown in Christeson (1973; No. 61, pg. 46 {1st part}). A folk‑dance
dated between 1820 and 1850. Boehme, No. 273 (2nd part).
ZYDECO EST PAS SALE. Cajun/Zydeco. From Clifton
Chernier. See "(Les) Haricots
Sont Pas Sales."
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