Buckley's banjo guide : containing the elementary principles of music, together with new, easy, and progressive exercises, and a great variety of song

Oliver Ditson and Co. ; C.H. Ditson Co.

Boston (Mass.)

When I saw sweet Nellie home -- Clog hornpipe -- Waltz -- Glory hallelujah -- Bobey Nickle's jig -- General Pope's jig -- Andrew Leavitt's jig -- Savory's jig -- Bolton clog hornpipe -- Pat Maloy's jig -- Billy Morris's jig -- Lon Morris's jig -- The jubilee -- Fandango -- Tiger jig -- John Anderson my Joe : jig -- Do they think of me at home -- Nelly was a lady -- Ladies in de parlor : reel -- Dearest Mae -- Turn up Jack : jig -- Uncle Ned -- Charleston galls -- Soap fat man -- Picayune Butl... Show moreWhen I saw sweet Nellie home -- Clog hornpipe -- Waltz -- Glory hallelujah -- Bobey Nickle's jig -- General Pope's jig -- Andrew Leavitt's jig -- Savory's jig -- Bolton clog hornpipe -- Pat Maloy's jig -- Billy Morris's jig -- Lon Morris's jig -- The jubilee -- Fandango -- Tiger jig -- John Anderson my Joe : jig -- Do they think of me at home -- Nelly was a lady -- Ladies in de parlor : reel -- Dearest Mae -- Turn up Jack : jig -- Uncle Ned -- Charleston galls -- Soap fat man -- Picayune Butler -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Nine o'clock bell : jig -- Annie Lisle -- Ring, boys, ring -- Abraham's daughter -- Willie we have missed you : jig -- Villikins and his Dinah -- Bully for all -- Tenpenny bit : Irish -- De old lame horse -- Lor bres de ladies -- Sugar in de gourd -- The nigger's frolic -- Les sylphides : mazourka -- Pea nut girl -- Kate Kearny waltz -- Lazy Joe : jig -- Tonawanda hornpipe -- Congo jig -- Pearl waltz -- Varginny tobacco plant : jig -- Blue bell valse -- Chickahominy jig -- Contraband jig -- Aunt Dinah's sauce pan -- Wrecker's daughter -- Wood up quick step -- Anvil chorus -- Scotch jig -- Snapping turtle jig -- Toe de mark jig -- May-flower schottische -- Yorktown polka -- Sally come up -- Don’t you hear de bulgine -- G. Swain Buckley's celebrated minor jig -- Star spangled banner -- Johnny Campbell's jig -- The cure -- General Burnside's jig -- No one to love -- Jedediah's clog hornpipe -- Dick Sand's clog hornpipe -- Let me kiss him for his mother -- Jim Lee's jig -- Fisher's hornpipe -- Jack is the lad -- Chimes on the bells -- Pat the boy jig -- Kettle drum polka -- Niagara polka -- Pacific schottische -- Bandurand polka -- Napoleon W. Gould's polka -- Frank Converse's jig -- Von Bonhorst jig -- Union jig -- Budworth jig -- Dan Bryant's jig -- Buckley's hornpipe -- Dan Emmett's reel -- Storm galop -- The lily : mazurka -- Excelsior rondo -- Empire hornpipe -- Joe Murphy's jig -- Viva la America -- Spalding's jigs -- Sheridan's hornpipe -- Fred. Buckley's hornpipe -- Ben Cotton's clog dance -- Hayes' clog hornpipe -- I'm lonely since my mother died -- Paddle your own canoe -- O would I were a bird -- The little brown cot on the hill -- Pretty little Sarah -- I'll meet thee at the lane -- The yeller gal that winked at me -- Maggie May Show less

A scarce and important banjo tutor, by a well known performer. Many of the tunes are by the author, who led Buckley's Serenaders, a long popular minstrel troupe. This is probably a somewhat later printing, but still preserving the cover diagram of the fretless minstrel pitched instrument.

Banjo -- Instruction and study
Banjo -- Methods
Banjo -- Studies and exercises
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