Peek-a-Boo Waltz
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Peek-a-Boo Waltz" is an American and Canadian waltz in 3/4 time and D Major (most versions) or<br> G Major (Howard Marshall). The parts are played AB (Silberberg), AABB (Phillips) or AA’BB’<br> (Perlman).<br> This tune, under the name "Svensk Anna's Vals" is popular with Scandinavian folk dancers.<br> The waltz actually began as a song air, originally written and composed by William J. Scanlan<br> (1856-1898), who published it in 1881. Scanlan was a singer who began his career as a child and<br> by his early teens was accompanying lectures at temperance meetings to sing hymns and provide a<br> musical interlude between sermons. He toured the New England temperance circuit for seven years,<br> until, at the age of 20, he left for a careeer in show business. Forming a team with an Irish<br> comedian William Cronin, he performed on the early vaudeville stage, until finally he made it to<br> Broadway. Scanlan was performing in 1891 when he began to show signs of mental instability.<br> In 1892, he was institutionalized at the Bloomingdale Asylum in White Plains, New York, where he<br> remained until his death six years later.<br> The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. It was also in the repertoire of<br> Galax, Virginia, old time fiddler Luther Davis.<br> It was printed in Stephen F. Davis' Devil's Box, vol. 19, No. 4, (Winter 1985),<br> Ford’s Traditional Music in America (1940),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Ruth's Pioneer Western Folk Tunes (1948) and<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Uncle Dave Macon (1927),<br> John McCutcheon on Barefoot Boy with Boots On (1981) (He learned it from<br> hammered dulcimer player Paul Van Arsdale, Tonawanda, N.Y., who had it from his grandfather),<br> Ward Allen on The Best of Ward Allen (1973) and Ward Allen Presents Maple Leaf Hoedown, Vol. 2,<br> Howard Marshall & John Williams on Fiddling Missouri (1999) (Appears as "Art Galbraith’s Peekaboo<br> Waltz") and<br> Alan Jabbour, James Reed and Bertram Levy on A Henry Reed Reunion (2002).<br>
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