Boyle's Reel

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Theme code Index	5H1H6H2H 1H1H2H7
Also known as	Salamanca Reel (1)
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Irish, Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Hornpipe/Clog
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	USA/Mid-Atlantic"USA/Mid-Atlantic" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 98, p. 58
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
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BOYLE'S REEL. AKA and see "Salamanca {Reel} [1]." American, Hornpipe. USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This tune is the much better known "Salamanca" with the parts reversed. Bayard's source learned the tune from John O'Boyle, a travelling salesman and fiddler who stayed with the source when he worked his routes through the county. The two would stay up long into the night playing and exchanging tunes.

Source for notated version: William Shape (Greene County, Pa., an elderly fiddler who played it as a hornpipe, despite its name, in the 1930's).

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 98, p. 58.

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