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Annotation: Benton's Dream — The Traditional Tune Archive
- Key
- tunearch-bentons-dream
- Type
- webpage
- Container
- The Traditional Tune Archive
Raw CSL JSON
{
"URL": "https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Benton%27s_Dream",
"type": "webpage",
"title": "Annotation: Benton's Dream",
"accessed": {
"date-parts": [
[
2026,
5,
8
]
]
},
"container-title": "The Traditional Tune Archive"
}
Claims
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Benton Flippen composed Benton's Dream in the 1960s at Tommy Jarrell's house in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, and Tommy Jarrell named the tune.
"Susan Songer notes that Flippen wrote the tune some time in the 1960's while at neighboring Mt. Airy fiddler Tommy Jarrell's house, just fooling around on the fiddle. Jarrell said "That's a good tune" and dubbed it "Benton's Dream.""
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Benton's Dream is classified as an American reel in A Mixolydian, in standard fiddle tuning, with AA'BB' structure.
"BENTON'S DREAM. American, Reel. USA, Surry County, western North Carolina. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'."
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Mary Gordon, who arranged the tune from Benton Flippen's playing, transcribed Benton's Dream with three sharps to maintain the A flavor; the G notes are played natural and the C-sharps are played somewhat flat but not quite natural.
"Mary writes:"I transcribed this with the 3 sharps to maintain the A 'flavor' but all the G notes are natural; C# notes are played somewhat flat, but not quite natural.""
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