Bedou's Reel

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Theme code Index	5L7L11 27L13
Also known as	Reel a' Bedou
Composer/Core Source
Region	Canada
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English), CANADA(Acadia/French)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Ken Perlman
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 72
Year of publication/Date of MS	1996
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BEDOU'S REEL (Reel a' Bedou). Canadian, Reel. Canada, Prince Edward Island. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Perlman's source, Robert Arsenault, learned this tune from a Magdeline Islands fiddler named Bedou. The Magdelines are about 75 miles north of eastern Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Source for notated version: Robert Arsenault (b. 1938, Wellington, Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].

Printed source: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 72.