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RARE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (MUSIC--MINSTRELSY.) EMMET, D.D. John Come Down de Hollow, Walk Round. . . Composed for Bryant's Minstrels. Oblong folio sheet of manuscript music, written in a neat hand on music paper with red staves; some corrections and indications for "dance" with a written out flute part. Np, circa 1858-1860's
a rare original piece of music composed by and possibly written by dan emmett himself, with several ink corrections. An example of a "walk 'round," a minstrel form perfected by Dan Emmett and the Bryant Minstrels. Bryant's Minstrels came together in the middle of the 19th century, the principal players being the Bryant brothers, Jerry, Dan and Neil, with an English fiddler named Phil Isaacs. Somewhere around the fall of 1858, the band was joined by Dan Emmett, who would quickly become the group's principal songwriter, as well as singer and instrumentalist, proficient on the fiddle, banjo, drum, fife, and bones. The song "Dixie," generally attributed to him, was first performed on stage by the Bryants during an 1859 concert.
