Rose Division
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Rose Division", also known as "Rowe's Division", "Row's Division" is a<br> North Carolina old-time breakdown usually played in C Major.<br> Most 'revival' musicians learned the tune from a 1974 recording by the<br> Hollow Rock String Band, although the band credits their version of the<br> tune to fiddler John Lewis of Walnut Cove, Stokes County, northwest North<br> Carolina.<br> Fennig's All-Star Band describes the melody as "an old fife and drum march".<br> It is possible, although not in any way substantiated, that the title refers<br> to the Confederate army division of Major General Robert Emmett Rodes, who<br> commanded it at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. It was one of the first<br> units on the field.<br> The tune has a basically simple structure: one phrase repeated in the A part<br> and one phrase repeated in the B part. The challenge for fiddlers is in the<br> B part where you need to shift up to second position. I have included a<br> recommended fingering in the mandolin tab. I have also included a parallel<br> line an octave lower for the B part. The fingering only applies to the higher<br> version.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Krassen's Appalachian<br> Fiddle (1973), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes (1995).<br> It was recorded by Fennig's All-Star String Band, The New North Carolina<br> Ramblers, The Hollow Rock String Band, Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman.<br> I learned it from Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman.<br>
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