Annotation:Reel de I'île Bizard
X:1 T:Reel de I'île Bizard T:Bizard Island Reel S:Joseph Allard (1873-1947, Montreal, Que.) M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig D:Victor 263871A, Joseph Allard (1932) F:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13096.mp3 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D A|dcd AFA|dfb a2f|{a}gfg ece|dfd AFA| dcd AFA|dfb a2f| {a}gfg Ace|d2d d2:| |:g|b2b bag|faa agf|{a}gfg Ace|ba^g a2a| gbb bag|faa agf|{a}gfg Ace|d2d d2:|
REEL DE I'ÎLE BIZARD (Bizard Island Reel). AKA and see "Doc Boyd's Jig," "Old Jubiter," "Reel du forgeron (2)," "Republican Set (The)." French-Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Reel de I'île Bizard", named for an island in the St. Lawrence River northwest of the island of Montreal, is fiddler Joseph Allard's (1873-1947) version of "<incipit title="load:republican" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Republican Set (The)">Republican Set (The)</incipit>," found Samuel Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981), and "<incipit title="load:jubiter" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Old Jubiter">Old Jubiter</incipit>" from Ira Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940), records Allard researcher Jean Duval[1]. Bayard collected the tune from a fiddler in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1960, while Ira Ford had it from a source in Missouri. Neither one seems to indicate a provenance however, as Ford included tunes from a geographically widespread area, while Bayard's version was collected relatively late with an idiosyncratic title. Allard's source is unknown.
Duval also notes that the tune was recorded by The Cornhuskers as "<incipit title="load:bod" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Doc Boyd's Jig">Doc Boyd's Jig</incipit>," a mid-20th century Canadian group that included fiddler Jean Carignan, a pupil of Allard's[2]. Allard himself re-recorded the tune six years later under the title "Reel du forgeron (2)" (Blacksmith's Reel).
X:1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:D (3A/B/c/|dcd AFA|dfb a2f|efg ABc|def A2 B/c/|
X:1 M:3/8 L:1/8 K:C G|cBc|GEG|cea|g2e|fef|dcB|dcc|c2:|
X:1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:C GAB|:cBc GEG|cea g2 e|faf ABc|BdB GAB|!