Allaire: A Song History
“Allaire” is a tune by Molly Mason, credited to her alone in the mountain dulcimer edition sold through the store of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason.[1] It is the first tune in the duo's book Catskill Mountain Waltzes and Airs, on page 6.[2] Swinging Door Music published that book in 2013, and it collects 62 waltzes and airs the couple composed themselves, written out in standard notation with chords marked.[3] The dulcimer edition arranges 22 tunes from the book, all but one of them in DAD tuning, and “Allaire” is one of the DAD arrangements.[1]
Sanford Robinson Gifford, A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), oil on canvas, 1862. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0). A Catskills landscape, shown for the book's Catskill title; no source consulted here connects it to the tune.
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