Table of Contents

Dictionary of the Principal Words Used in Modern Music (Page 2)

Rudiments of Music

• Staff (Page 3)
• Ledger Lines (Page 3)
• Clefs (Page 3)
• The Notes in Rotation (Page 4)
• The Form and Value of Notes (Page 4)
• Rests (Page 4)
• Dots (Page 5)
• Bars (Page 5)
• Time (Page 5)
• Sharps, Flats, and Naturals (Page 6)
• The Tie, Slur, Triplet, etc. (Page 6)
• Abbreviations (Page 7)
• Intervals (Page 7)
• The Modes and Their Signatures (Page 7)
• Scales (Page 8)
• Diatonic Scales (Page 8)
• Chromatic Scale (Page 8)
• Transposition of the Keys (Page 9)
• Different Shades of Tone (Page 9)
• The Appoggiatura (Page 10)
• The Gruppetto or Turn (Page 10)
• The Passing Shake (Page 11)
• The Note to Sound on Any Instrument to Correspond with Ab (Page 12)

Description of the Banjo (Page 12)

How to Tune the Banjo (Page 13)

The Barre (Page 13)

The Tremolo (Page 13)

General Remarks:

• Frets are Used As a Guide to Fingering (Page 14)
• The Bridge (Page 14)
• To Tune the Banjo by the Frets (Page 14)
• How to Practice (Page 14)

Complete Chart of the Banjo Fingerboard (Page 15)

Scales:

• Scale of A Major (Pages 16-18)
• Scale of E Major (Pages 18-19)
• Scale of D Major (Page 20)
• Scale of G Major (Page 20)
• Scale of C Major (Page 20)
• Minor Scales (Page 21)
• Chords (Pages 21-23)
• Chromatic Scale (Page 23)

Standard, National, and Operatic Melodies:

1. Yankee Doodle (Page 24)
2. The Loon’s Dance (Page 24)
3. Hot Corn (Page 24)
4. La Cachacha (Page 24)
5. Walk Around (Page 25)
6. John Brown, Glory Hallelujah (Page 25)
7. Sailors’ Jig (Page 25)
8. Star Spangled Banner (Page 25)
9. Nancy Jane (Page 26)
10. Hard Time Jig (Page 26)
11. Mischievous Offspring (Page 26)
12. Coming Thro’ the Rye (Page 26)
13. When I Was a Lad (Page 27)
14. Self Made Knight (Page 27)
15. Heel and Toe Polka (Page 27)
16. Russian March (Page 28)
17. XX Hornpipe (Page 28)
18. Katy’s Letter (Page 28)
19. Hail to the Chief (Page 29)
20. Get Out of the Wilderness (Page 29)
21. Hot Corn No. 2 (Page 29)
22. Tit Willow (Mikado) (Page 30)
23. Swiss Guard March (Page 30)
24. Potomac Thunder (Page 30)
25. Lucy Neal (Page 30)
26. Mazourka (Page 31)
27. Hail Columbia (Page 31)
28. Marcia Schottische (Page 32)
29. Old Dan Tucker (Page 32)
30. Ten Little Niggers (Page 32)
31. Bonaparte’s Grave (Page 33)
32. Pizzicato Polka (Page 33)
33. Weel May the Keel Row (Page 33)
34. Granny Will Your Dog Bite -- Jig (Page 34)
35. Jim Along Josey (Page 35)
36. Bully for You -- Jig (Page 35)
37. My Pretty Jane (Page 35)
38. Jolly Dog’s Polka (Slap Bang) (Page 35)
39. The Bell Goes a Ringing for Sarah (Page 35)
40. On Yonder Rock Reclining (Page 36)
41. Champagne Charley (Page 36)
42. Liberty Song from Puritani (Page 36)
43. Walk in Joe (Page 37)
44. Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (Page 37)
45. On the Beach at Long Branch (Page 37)
46. Hand Organ Hornipipe (Page 38)
47. Dearest Mae (Page 38)
48. Lucy Long (Page 38)
49. Hope Waltz (Page 38)
50. As Good As Gold (Page 39)
51. Man in the Moon (Page 39)
52. Arkansas Traveler (Page 39)
53. Shift the Scenes (Page 39)
54. On the Road to Brighton (Page 40)
55. Juba Jig (Page 40)
56. An Old Stager (Page 40)
57. The Vacant Chair (Page 41)
58. Walk Around (Page 41)
59. German Waltz (Page 41
60. Fred Wilson’s Clog (Page 42)
61. What a Pain I’ve Got (Page 42)
62. Killarney (Page 42)
63. Just Before the Battle, Mother (Page 43)
64. Bold Privateer (Page 43)
65. Juba Dis, Juba Dat (Page 43
66. Her Bright Smile (Page 44)
67. Robin Adair (Page 44)
68. Carnival of Venice (Page 44)
69. My Old Kentucky Home (Page 44)
70. The Band Begins to Play (Page 45)
71. I’m Getting a Big Boy Now (Page 45)
72. Sweet By and By (Page 45)
73. When the Corn is Waving, Annie (Page 46)
74. Lauterbach Waltz (Page 46)
75. La Donna e Mobile (Rigoletto) (Page 46)
76. Home Sweet Home (Page 47)
77. Sally Come Up (Page 47
78. Medley (Page 47)
79. Air Louis XIII (Page 48)
80. Waltz (Page 48)
81. St. Patricks Day (Jig) (Page 48)
82. Wait for the Wagon (Page 49)
83. Merriest Gal That’s Out (Page 49)
84. O, Carry Me Back to Virginia (Page 49)
85. Old Sye’s Jig (Page 50)
86. Rip Snorter Jig (Page 50)
87. Silver Chimes (Page 50)
88. Last Rose of Summer (Page 51)
89. Merry War March (Page 51)
90. Lively Twins Reel (Page 51)
91. The Campbells Are Coming (Page 52)
92. The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Hall (Page 52)
93. McCloud’s Reel (Page 52)
94. Clog Hornpipe (Page 52)
95. Virginia Reel (Page 53)
96. Sailing (Page 53)
97. Kingdom’s Coming (Page 54)
98. Fatinitza March (Page 54)
99. Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) (Page 54)
100. Fisherman’s Daughter (Page 55)
101. It’s Nice to be a Father (Page 55)
102. Fishers’ Hornpipe (Page 55)
103. Money Musk - “Highland Fling” (Page 56)
104. Lamplighter’s Hornpipe (Page 56)
105. Devil’s Dream (Page 56)
106. In the Gloaming (Page 56)
107. Irish Washerwoman (Page 57)
108. Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground (Page 57)
109. Barcus Reel (Page 57)
110. Wearing of the Green (Page 58)
111. Gumbo Chaff (Page 58)
112. My Lodging is on the Cold Ground (Page 58)
113. Girl I Left Behind Me (Page 58)
114. Tempest (Page 59)
115. Jim Crow (Page 59)
116. Rosa Lee (Page 59)
117. Old King Crow (Page 59)
118. What Can the Matter Be (Page 59)
119. ‘Tis said that Absence Conquers Love (Page 59)
120. The Exile of Erin (Page 60)
121. New Century Hornpipe (Page 60)
122. Norah, The Pride of Kildare (Page 60)
123. The Celebrated Opera Reel(Page 61)
124. Strike the Cymbals (Page 61)
125. Huntsman’s Hornpipe (Page 61)
126. No, Ne’er Can Thy Home be Mine (Page 61)
127. Miss Warrender of Lochends (Page 62)
128. Finnegan’s Wake (Page 62)
129. Rustic Reel (Page 62)
130. All the Blue Bonnets over the Border (Page 62)
131. Kitty of Coleraine (Page 62)
132. Kate Kearney (Page 63)
133. Wind that Shakes the Barley (Page 63)
134. Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself (Page 63)
135. Miss Brown’s Reel (Page 63)
136. The Bonnie Blue Flag (Page 64)
137. Roy’s Wife (Page 64)
138. Dixie (Page 64)
139. “Highland Laddie,” or “White Cockade” (Page 64)

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