Annotation:Joe MacDonald's
Tune properties and standard notation
JOE MACDONALD'S REEL. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Prince Edward Island. A Major ('A' part) & A Mixolydian ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Emmett Hughes (b. 1921, Dromore, Queens County, PEI) in honor of a St. Andrews, Kings County, PEI, fiddler.
Source for notated version: Emmett Hughes [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 106.
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