View source for Bull-Dozer Reel

{{Abctune
|f_tune_title=Bull-Dozer Reel
|f_composer=Edwin Christie
|f_country=United States
|f_genre=Contra
|f_rhythm=Reel (single/double)
|f_time_signature=2/4
|f_key=D
|f_accidental=2 sharps
|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
|f_structure=AABB
|f_book_title=Ryan's Mammoth Collection
|f_collector=William Bradbury Ryan,
|f_year=1883
|f_page=p. 74
|f_theme_code_index=13 51H 3H5H 2H2H
}}
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
'''BULL-DOZER REEL'''. American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by one Edwin Christie, although not the same Edwin Christy of Christy's Minstrel's fame. According to '''Bulldozers''' written by Sam Sargent and Michael Alves: "Around 1880, the common usage of 'bull-dose' in the United States meant administering a large and efficient dose of any sort of medicine or punishment. If you 'bull-dosed' someone, you gave him a severe whipping or coerced or intimidated him in some other way, such as by holding a gun to his head... In 1886, with a slight variation in spelling, a 'bulldozer' had come to mean both a large-caliber pistol and the person who wielded it... By the late 1800s, 'bulldozing' came to mean using brawny force to push over, or through, any obstacle."
<br>
<br>
''Printed source:'' Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 47. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 74. 
</font></p>

----

<pre>
X:1
T:Bull-Dozer Reel
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
(3A,/B,C, | DD/E/ FF/G/ | AB/c/ dd/e/ | f/e/f/b/ a/f/d/f/ | e/a/f/d/ e/d/B/A/ | DD/E/ FF/G/ | 
AB/c/ dd/e/ | f/e/f/b/ a/f/d/f/ | e/a/g/e/ d :: z/(d/e/ | f/)e/d/f/ (e/c/) z/A/ | B/d/c/B/ (A/F/)z/(d/e/ | 
f/)e/d/f/ (e/c/)z/e/ | f/a/^g/b/ az/(d/e/ | f/)e/d/f/ (e/c/)z/A/ | B/d/c/B/ (A/F/)z/E/ | DD/E/ F/A/d/A/ | B/d/c/e/ d :|

</pre>
----
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
'''© 1996-2010  Andrew Kuntz. All Rights Reserved.'''
<br>
Engraver Valerio M. Pelliccioni
</font></p>