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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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Item Title
Georgia Camp Meeting
Alternate Title(s)
At a Georgia Camp Meeting
Author/Creator
Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Composer: Kerry Mills, words & music, 1897
Created/Published
August 27, 1966
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)
Notes
"Georgia Camp Meeting" was originally published in 1897 by Kerry Mills as "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" and became a turn-of-the-century classic. It was intended originally for the "cake-walk," a popular dance of the period; see Spaeth, "A History of Popular Music in America", p. 284. Henry Reed's performance preserves the original emphasis of this and other ragtime-era tunes on a particular "snappy" syncopated pattern: (eighth note-quarter note-eighth note) or (sixteenth note-eighth note-sixteenth note).
Key: D
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-8)
Rendition: 1r-2
Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQSR'TC
Compass: 8
Stylistic features: Syncopation patterns interesting. Recorded beginning with second strain, which sounds like a chorus in a ragtime song.
Spoken: HENRY REED: That's the "Georgia Camp Meeting."
Recording chronology: 042
Duration: 37 seconds
Subject
Rags
Fiddle tunes
Instrumentals--fiddle
Ethnography
Music
United States--Virginia--Giles County--Glen Lyn
Object Type
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFC LWO 5031 reel 5A, AFS 13035A:31
Digital ID
afcreed 13035a31
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13035a31