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The reel's popularity was not confined to Scotland for we find it named 'Duke of Clarence Reel (The)' in Lavenu's New Country Dances for the Year 1798, published at London. "Colonel Mac Bean's Reel" is also contained in vol. 2 (p. 156)[1] of the large c. mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman, who had obtained it from a manuscript provided him by Dublin bookseller John O'Daly, according to Hugh & Lisa Shields[2] (Goodman's "Miss Westrop's Reel", in volume 1 of his mss. is cognate with "Colonel McBain's" in the first strain only).

The reel also was entered in to Goodman's contemporary, fiddler and piper Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) x, 1883 music manuscript collection as "Captain McBain."

A setting of this noted reel as played by the experts of the Irish Music Club of Chicago may be found on page 116 of O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland.

In composition and fluency of rhythm the variant above presented compares very favorably with the original especially when given expression on the fiddle in the inimitable style of the genial Paddy Stack from whom the manuscript was obtained."

...more at: Colonel McBain's - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:1 T:Colln. MacBain's Reel M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Bremner - "For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances" (p. 101) Z:AK/Fiddlers Companion K:Gdor V:1 clef=treble name="0." [V:1] c|(B/c/d) Gd BGdB|(A/B/c) Fc AFcA|(B/c/d) Gd BGdG|(^F/G/A) DF G2-G:| =f|f2 Bf B/B/B fB|c>dT(cB) ABcA|Gg-ga bag^f|gb (a/g/^f) g2-ga| (g/a/b) fd Bdfd|cdTcB ABcA|Bdg^f gdc_e|dBcA G2-G||

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+|f_track=Colonel McBain.mp3
-|f_pdf=Nancy Rowland.pdf
+|f_pdf=James Goodman Manuscripts.png
-|f_artwork=Carter.jpg
+|f_artwork=Colonel McBain s Reel.pdf
-|f_tune_name=Nancy Rowland
+|f_tune_name=Colonel McBain's
-|f_track_title=Nancy_Rowland_(1)
+|f_track_title=Colonel McBain's
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-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/doc-merle-watson Doc & Merle Watson]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/user-463726157 Hasse Jonsson]
-|f_notes= W Carter Family, Monroe Co., Mississippi. Fiddler George Washington Carter (1869-1948) and family, with son James "Jimmy" Auguston Carter (1900-1979) playing guitar [Lynn "Chirps" Smith].
+|f_notes=The tune was first recorded by Galway melodeon player Peter Conlon in 1921, under the title "McBan's Reel" (thought the different spelling may be due to an error by the record company).
-|f_caption=Had a little dog, his name was Rover, <br>
+|f_caption= Annotated index of all four volumes of the Goodman collection
-When he died, he died all over.<br>
+in the order of the manuscripts by Hugh & Lisa Shields.
-I had a wife and she was a Quaker,<br>
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/user-463726157/colonel-mcbain Soundcloud]
-She wouldn't work and I wouldn't make her.<br>
-I had a wife and she was a weaver,<br>
-She wouldn't work, so I had to leave her.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/doc-merle-watson/nancy-rowland-old-joe-clark Soundcloud]
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-|f_article=[[Nancy_Rowland_(1) | '''Nancy Rowland''']]
+|f_article=[[Colonel McBain's | '''Colonel McBain's''']]
-The tune is mentioned in a passage in Missouri physician William Percival King's Stories of a Country Doctor (1891), in his chapter called "Old Time Dances and Parties." After a community barn-raising...:
+The reel's popularity was not confined to Scotland for we find it named '[[Duke of Clarence Reel (The)]]' in Lavenu's '''New Country Dances for the Year 1798''', published at London. "Colonel Mac Bean's Reel" is also contained in vol. 2 (p. 156)[http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=159&z=1464.1112%2C852.6783%2C7429.8284%2C2584.8765] of the large c. mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper [[wikipedia:James Goodman (musicologist)|James Goodman]], who had obtained it from a manuscript provided him by Dublin bookseller John O'Daly, according to Hugh & Lisa Shields[https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/prints.itma.ie/goodman/TMP_Full_index_March_2022.pdf] (Goodman's "Miss Westrop's Reel", in volume 1 of his mss. is cognate with "Colonel McBain's" in the first strain only).
-''...the young men would repair to the house in the dusk of evening. If the quilt was done it would be taken out of the frames; if not it would be wound up--that is lifted to the ceiling or "loft," and then securely tied overhead. If there was a bed in the "big room" it would be taken down and removed. The fiddlers would get ready while everybody ate a hasty supper. This evening meal was enjoyed most by the old folks, for the younger ones would be so elated with the prospect of what was to come they could not eat. The "fiddlers" (there were no violinists in those days) would take their places i the corner and begin to "tune up." Four young men would seek partners and take their places for a cotillion. Then the fiddlers would strike up a familiar strain and the dancing would begin.''
+The reel also was entered in to Goodman's contemporary, fiddler and piper [[biography:Stephen Grier|Stephen Grier]] (c. 1824-1894) x, 1883 music manuscript collection as "Captain McBain."
-''And it was dancing.
+A setting of this noted reel as played by the experts of the Irish Music Club of Chicago may be found on page 116 of O'Neill's '''Dance Music of Ireland'''.
-None of your gliding and sliding to and fro, a little hugging here and there, touching the tips of fingers and bowing and scraping. Oh, no. This was dancing. The music was such as "Fishers," "Durangs," "Rickett's," and "The Sailor's" hornpipes, "The Arkansas Traveler," "Cotton Eyed Joe," "Nancy Rowland," "Great big 'taters in sandy land," "Pouring soapsuds over the fence," "The snow bird on the Ash bank," "The Route," "The Rye Straw," "Run, nigger, run," etc. Sometimes one of the fiddlers would act as "prompter," or, if he could not, then some one would be selected. ... [pp. 48-49].''
+In composition and fluency of rhythm the variant above presented compares very favorably with the original especially when given expression on the fiddle in the inimitable style of the genial Paddy Stack from whom the manuscript was obtained."
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