Composed in 1982 by Jay Ungar, this waltz gained widespread recognition as the theme for Ken Burns’s documentary The Civil War. It was originally written to mark the end of a summer at Ashokan music and dance camp in New York. In “The Waltz Book”, Ungar is quoted as saying, “So one morning I picked up my fiddle and started playing the saddest lament I could come up with as a way of saying goodbye to that summer.”