Bull Run Picnic

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Theme code Index	1151H 61H51H
Also known as	Chateauguay Reel, Reed de Chateauguay (Le)
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History	USA(Central)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:R.P. Christeson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Old Time Fiddler's Repertory vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	No. 141, p. 100
Year of publication/Date of MS	1976
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BULL RUN PICNIC. AKA and see "Chateauguay Reel." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Similar to "Williamsburg Reel" published in Jarman's Old-Time Fiddlin' Tunes. Christeson evidently collected it as an untitled tune, the name supplied later by his friend Cy Kines (a native Virginian, which may account for the title). However, it is in fact a close variant of Joseph Allard's French-Canadian "Chateauguay Reel", with the parts reversed. Canadian radio stations could be picked up in Missouri in the evening, and some Canadian fiddle tunes entered American Midwest repertory in this manner.

Printed source: R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1), 1976; p. 100.

X:1
T:Bull Run Picnic
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
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