Setauket
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Setauket" is an American reel in D Major. The parts are played AA'BB'.<br> The tune has been attributed to Black slave fiddler Anthony Hannibal<br> "Black Tony" Clapp who was born in Connecticut and relocated to<br> Setauket, New York.<br> Painter and music collector William Sydney Mount recalled childhood<br> experiences of knowing Anthony ("Black Tony") Hannibal Clapp (1749-1816)<br> and sitting at Clapp’s knee while he played folk tunes.<br> Clapp was buried in a cemetery for people of color on land that used<br> to belong to Mount’s grandfather.<br> William Sydney Mount (1807-1868) was born in Setauket, New York and he<br> spent much of his life there and the adjacent village of Stony Brook.<br> He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre<br> painting. He was also passionate about music and a fiddle player who<br> designed and patented several versions of his own violin which he named<br> the "Cradle of Harmony", designed to project sound loudly enough to be<br> heard over the noise of the crowd and had fewer parts than normal so<br> that it could be manufactured more efficiently and affordably.<br> It was recorded by Tricia Spencer on Fiddlin' Like There's No Tomorrow.<br>
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