{"id":4718,"date":"2007-08-20T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2016-05-04T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:19:07","slug":"money-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/4718","title":{"rendered":"“Money Musk”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The room was still and warm and full of fire-light… and Pa’s fiddle sang merrily to itself… — Little House in the Big Woods, Chapter 4, “Christmas”<\/em><\/p>\n

You’re the fiddlin’est fool that ever I see!’ Mr. Edwards shouted admiringly to Pa. He didn’t stop dancing, Pa didn’t stop playing. He played ‘Money Musk’ and ‘Arkansas Traveler,’ ‘Irish Washerwoman’ and the ‘Devil’s Hornpipe.’ — Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 5, “The House on the Prairie”<\/em><\/p>\n

     
\nM<\/span>oney Musk is a traditional American dance, always danced to the same tune. One publication gives the following instructions for performing the dance: “First couple give the right hand, and swing once and a half around; then go below one couple and forward and back six; right hand to partner, and swing three quarters round; forward and back six; swing to place, and right and left four.” However, there are as many traditional variations on the dance itself as there are on the tune!<\/p>\n

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote that her father played “Money Musk” both as a tune and for dancing. It appears in Wilder’s Pioneer Girl<\/em> manuscript as well as in all versions edited by Rose Wilder Lane. <\/p>\n

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No lyrics to “Money Musk”!<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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CLICK HERE<\/a> to listen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CLICK HERE<\/a> for another version. <\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Click on the above image to view a copy of period sheet music of “Money Musk.”    <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

     
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\n“Money Musk”<\/strong> (BW 4; LHP 5; PG)
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Traditional American dance tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[634],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10787,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/10787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}