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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=Cader Idris.mp3
+|f_track=Colonel McBain.mp3
-|f_pdf=Caret Idris.pdf
+|f_pdf=James Goodman Manuscripts.png
-|f_artwork=JohnParry.png
+|f_artwork=Colonel McBain s Reel.pdf
-|f_tune_name=Sweet Jenny Jones
+|f_tune_name=Colonel McBain's
-|f_track_title=Sweet Jenny Jones
+|f_track_title=Colonel McBain's
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-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/andrewcampling Andrew Campling]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/user-463726157 Hasse Jonsson]
-|f_notes=Photo of John Parry, c. 1825 - commonly known by his bardic name Bardd Alaw
+|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=Parry did much to promote and popularize Welsh music in England in both music hall and fashionable society settings, and he was very successful with this air which was immensely popular in 19th century England.
+|f_caption= Annotated index of all four volumes of the Goodman collection
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/andrewcampling/cader-idris Soundcloud]
+in the order of the manuscripts by Hugh & Lisa Shields.
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/user-463726157/colonel-mcbain Soundcloud]
 |f_pix=420
 |f_picpix=200
-|f_article=[[Sweet Jenny Jones | '''Sweet Jenny Jones''']]
+|f_article=[[Colonel McBain's | '''Colonel McBain's''']]
-The Jenny Jones of the title was said to have been a dairymaid at Pontblyddin Farm, who fell in love with a ploughman named Edward Morgan. Edward went to sea and spent twenty years in the Navy, however, he returned to marry Jenny.
+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 story entranced actor Charles James Mathews, who visited Wales around 1825 and actually met the Morgans and heard their story first-hand. During his trip he heard a harper play Parry’s melody in the hotel he was staying at in Llangollen, and memorized it, not knowing who composed it.
+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."
-He was inspired to write a song about the Morgans to the melody, called “Song of Jenny Jones and Ned Morgan,” and performed it for friends in London when he returned. At the end of the evening’s entertainment an elderly gentleman approached him and claimed it was he who originally wrote the tune.
+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'''.
-It was called “Cader Idris,” the old man—Bardd Alaw himself—said, and it had won him a prize at the 1804 Eisteddfod. Mathews continued to perform the song which caught on immediately. It struck a romantic chord, and was popular for nearly two decades, enough to generate other ‘Jenny Jones’ songs and parodies.
+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."
-Figures of Jenny Jones were fashioned in chinaware, horse-brasses, and other items.
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