Annotation:Pride of the Ball
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PRIDE OF THE BALL. AKA and see similar reels "Family Estate (The)," "Girl with the Handsome Face (The)," "Joshua Gray," "McKenna's Reel," "Miss Wright's Reel," "Mollie's Bonnet," "Molloy's Night Cap," "Pigeon on the Gate (5)," “Queen's Marriage (The),” "Queen's Wedding (The)," “Speed the Plow,” "Steeple Chase (1)," "Swallow's Tail Reel," "Take Your Hand Away," "Village Reel (The)." Scottish, Irish, Canadian, American; Reel. Canada; Ontario, Prince Edward Island. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, Harding, Joyce, Kennedy, Kerr, O’Neill): AA’BB’ (Perlman). A member of the "Swallowtail Reel/Swallow's Tail Reel" tune family, a large and widely disseminated tune family popular in Scotland and Ireland, and in North America. Perlman (1996) notes that there is some confusion between this tune and “Pigeon on the Gatepost;” in fact, several of the variants he lists (such as “Roddy Joe's Reel” and “Twin Sisters (The)”) are also listed as variants for “Pigeon on the Gatepost.” The tune was also collected by Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, 1981, Appendix No. 6, p. 574) as an untitled reel collected from a fiddler he met from Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the 1930's. Note Perlman collected it from PEI fiddlers some sixty years later.
Sources for notated versions: Peter Chaisson, Jr. (b. 1942, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; fiddler Dawson Girdwood (Perth, Ottawa Valley, Ontario) [Bégin].
Printed sources: Bégin (Fiddle Music from the Ottawa Valley), 1985; No. 63, p. 72. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 37. Harding Collection and Harding's Original Collection, No. 169. Henebry, 1928, No. 67, p. 243. JIFSS, Vol. XVII, p. 39. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 342, p. 157 (appears as untitled reel). Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 161, p. 38. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 226, p. 25. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 4), c. 1880’s; No. 168. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1268. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 83.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]