Dan Levenson's Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes (Book)
Over 300 tunes in standard notation for all instruments

Whether you already play old-time music, or you are just getting started, this is the book for you. Dan Levenson’s Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes presents more than 300 tunes in standard notation with suggested chords for you to explore and enjoy. All but a few are traditional or older tunes and are easily searched online to discover their pedigree as well as several recorded versions of them.

Some might call this a complete repertoire in a book in t ...more

Product Number:
31088
Format:
Book
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation
Pages:
124
Binding:
Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
1-5134-7341-7
ISBN13:
978-15134-7341-3
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
10/19/2023

Whether you already play old-time music, or you are just getting started, this is the book for you. Dan Levenson’s Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes presents more than 300 tunes in standard notation with suggested chords for you to explore and enjoy. All but a few are traditional or older tunes and are easily searched online to discover their pedigree as well as several recorded versions of them.

Some might call this a complete repertoire in a book in the following sense: It is a large (though not encyclopedic) collection of old-time fiddle tunes played in today’s sessions.

Learning the tunes in this book will give you a solid old-time repertoire that would allow you to join in jams in the many communities playing old-time music today.

About this book

Recordings

Tune name

The Version

Source

Order of the parts

Crooked Tunes

My Bowing

Chords

Repeats

Time Signature(s)

Waltzes

Tunings

Special notations used

In Conclusion

The Tunes

Ain’t Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight

Altamont

Angelina Baker (aka Angeline the Baker)

Antelope Gap

Arkansas Traveler

Avalon Quickstep

And the Cat Came Back

Barlow Knife (John Salyer)

Barlow Knife (Song)

Banjo Tramp

Been to the East, Been to the West

Big Eyed Rabbit

Big John McNeil

Big Scioto

Bill Cheatam

Billy in the Low Ground

Black Eyed Suzianna (aka Susiana)

Black Cat in a Briar Patch

Black Hills Waltz

Black Jack Grove

Blackbird Says to the Crow

Boatman

Bob Tailed Mule

Booth Shot Lincoln

Bowl-a-Rama

Breaking Up Christmas

Briar Picker Brown

Broken Down Gambler

Buck Mountain

Buffalo Gals (KY version in G)

Buffalo Gals (Common version in G)

Buffalo Gals (in A)

Buckin’ Dun

Bull at the Wagon

Camp Chase

Camp Meeting on the th of July

Candy Girl

Chase the Squirrel

Chattanooga

Cincinnati Hornpipe

Cherokee Shuffle (in A)

Cherokee Shuffle (in D)

Chinese Breakdown

Climbing the Golden Stairs

Chinquapin Hunting (in A)

Chinquapin Hunting (in D – Stamper)

Coast Is Clear

Cluck Old Hen

Colored Aristocracy

Cookhouse Joe

Crow Little Rooster

Crook Brothers Breakdown

Crow Creek

Cuffy

Cuckoo’s Nest in D

Cuckoo’s Nest in A (aka Richmond)

Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand

Devil Eat the Groundhog

Dinah

Doctor, Doctor

Dogs in the Dishes

Double File

Dry and Dusty

Drunken Hiccups

Ducks on the Mill Pond

Dubuque

Duck River

Ducks in the Pond

Duke of Kent’s Waltz

Mr. Fishar’s Hornpipe (aka Fisher’s

Hornpipe)

Durang’s Hornpipe

Dusty Miller

Ebenezer

Table of Contents

 

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

(in D aka Western Country)

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

(in G from The Tar Heel Rattlers)

Flying Clouds (aka Flying Cloud Cotillion)

Elzic’s Farewell

Five Miles From Town

Flying Indian

Folding Down the Sheets

Forked Deer

Fortune

Fun’s All Over

Gaston

George Booker

Georgia Railroad

Gilsaw

Get Off Your Money

Give the Fiddler a Dram

Girl I Left Behind

Glory Medley

Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston

Going Up Town

Goodbye My Little Darling

Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm

Grand Picnic

Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato

Vine

Greasy Coat (Hammons)

Greasy String (Tommy Jarrell)

Greasy String (Melvin Wine)

Great Big Taters in a Sandy Land

Green Willis (aka The Raw Recruit)

Grey Eagle

Grub Springs

Hangman’s Reel

Happy Hollow

Half Past Four

Hell and Scissors

Henry Reed’s Breakdown

Hey Little Girl Do What You Want

High Yellow

Hollow Poplar

Home With the Girls in the Morning

Hooker’s Hornpipe

Hop Light Ladies (aka Miss McLeod’s Reel)

 

Hunt the Buffalo

I Don’t Love Nobody

Icy Mountain

I’m Going to Get My Mustache Blacked

Indian Ate the Woodchuck

Jackie Wilson

Indian Corn (aka Ol’ Woodard’s Tune)

I’ve Got No Honey Babe Now

Jaybird

Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough

Jeff City

Jeff Sturgeon

Jenny on the Railroad

Jimmy in the Swamp

Jimmy Shank

John Brown’s Dream

John Brown’s March

John Henry

John Lover’s Gone

John Sharp’s Reel

John Stenson’s #2

Johnny Cope

Johnny Don’t Get Drunk

Johnson Boys

Johnson Gals

Jonah in the Windstorm

Juliann Johnson

Jump in the Well My Pretty Little Miss

Jump Jim Crow

Kash Kersey

Just From the Fountain

Katy Hill

Kansas City Reel

Lady of the Lake  

Lady of the Lake  

Ladies on the Steamboat

Leather Britches

Liberty

Little Burnt Potato

Little Betty Brown

Little Billy Wilson

Little Dutch Girl

Little Girl with Her Hair Down Behind

Little Sadie

Log Chain

Logan County Blues

Love Somebody

Lonesome Train

Lost Indian (Ed Haley)

Maggots in the Sheep Hide

Magpie

Martha Campbell

Meadow Prancer (Ryck Kaiser)

Merry Blacksmith

McMichen’s Reel (aka Hog Trough Reel)

Mike in the Wilderness

Mississippi Sawyer

Mole in the Ground

Monkey on a Dogcart

Money Musk

Money Musk (Wooliver’s)

Moses Hoe the Corn

Muddy Roads

Natchez Under the Hill

Needlecase (aka Latch Key)

New Five Cents

New Money

Nixon’s Farewell (Curtis Bouterse)

North Carolina Breakdown

Oh My Little Darling

Oklahoma Rooster

Old Belle Cow (2 part)

Old Belle Cow (3 part)

Old Bunch of Keys

Old Horse and Buggy

Old Joe Clark

Old Melinda

Old Molly Hare

Old Mother Flannigan

Old Savannah (Beverly Smith)

Old Yellow Dog Come Trotting Through the

Meeting House

Ora Lee

Opera Reel (aka The Celebrated Opera Reel)

Orvetta Waltz

Over the Waterfall

Pikes Peak

Polly Put the Kettle On

Pig Ankle Rag

Policeman

Possum in the Well

Possum on a Rail

Porter’s Reel

Quince Dillon’s High D

Ragtime Annie

Railroad Through the Rocky Mountains (aka

Marmaduke’s Hornpipe)

Rainy Day

(The) Rattlesnake

Rattlesnake Bit the Baby

Red Bird

Red Fox Waltz

Red Haired Boy (aka Little Begger Man)

Richmond Cotillion

Rickett’s Hornpipe

Rock That Cradle Lucy

Rock the Cradle Joe (1)

Rock the Cradle Joe (2)

Roaring River

Rochester Schottische

Rocky Mountain Goat

Rocky Mountain Hornpipe

Rocky Pallet

Rocky Road to Jordan

Rolling River

Roscoe

Run Down Boot

Run Rabbit Run

Rye Straw (aka Joke on the Puppy)

Saddle Up the Gray

Sailing Over England

Saint Anne’s Reel

Sally Anne Johnson

Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Toes

Salty River Reel

Sandy Boys

Sandy River Belle

Sarah Armstrong (collected as Old Reel)

Saturday Night Breakdown

Seneca Square Dance

Shepherd’s Walk

Shoes and Stockings

Shoo Fly

Shortening Bread (Doc Roberts’)

Shove That Pig’s Foot a Little Further Into

the Fire

Shuckin’ the Brush

Shuffle About

Silly Bill

Sleepy Eyed Joe

Sleepy Eyed John

Snake River Reel (Peter Lippincott)

Snowbird

Soldier’s Joy

Spotted Pony

Star of Bethlehem

Staten Island Hornpipe

Step Around Johnny

Sugar Hill

Sugar in the Gourd

Tater Patch

Sugarbaby

Temperance Reel (aka Teatotalers Reel)

Texas

Texas Gals

Texas Quick Step (aka Rachael)

That’s My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It

Thread the Needle

Three Forks of Reedy

Three Thin Dimes

Three Way Hornpipe

Tom and Jerry

Tomahawk

Tombigbee Waltz

Too Young to Marry (1)

Too Young to Marry (2)

Triangle Blues (formerly misnamed Under

the Parasol)

Train on the Island

Trot Along My Honey

Trouble on My Mind

Wake Up Susan (1)

Wake Up Susan (2)

Valley Forge

Waiting for the Boatsman

Waldorf Reel

Walk Along John to Kansas

Walk Old Shoe (with a Heel Come a Draggin’)

Walking in My Sleep

Washington’s March

Waterbound

Ways of the World

Whistling Rufus (aka Way Down South)

West Fork Gals

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Whitesburg

Wild Hog in the Woods

Wild Horses at Stony Point

Woodchopper’s Reel

Year of Jubilo (aka Lincoln’s Gunboats)

Yellow Barber

Y.Z. Hamilton’s Special Breakdown

Yellow Gals

Yellow Rose of Texas

Key Index -

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