Dream Song
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Dream Song" is an American air in 4/4 time and G Major. The parts are played AAB.<br> Samuel Bayard relates "(This tune) was heard in a dream...Mrs. Armstrong relates that she<br> dreamed of seeing her Uncle Laney--the most accomplished fiddler in the family and the one<br> who knew the greatest store of old music--sitting on a log in a clearing and playing this<br> air on his violin. The tune impressed her so by its wistful quality that she still recalled<br> it when awake; so she at once tried it out on her fiddle and committed it to memory. The<br> tune itself is very much in the style of a British folk melody".<br> Bayard groups it with "Waltzing With the One I Love" and "Laney Tunin' His Fiddle". All<br> three tunes were composed by Sarah Armstrong. Bayard says that these tunes "demonstrate<br> that the making of melodies is not yet quite dead in Pennsylvania".<br> It was collected from Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, (near) Derry, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1943.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944).<br>
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