Annotation:Miss Corbett's Reel
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MISS CORBETT('S REEL). AKA and see "New Demense (1) (The)." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Aird, Cole, O’Neill, Ryan): AAB (Kennedy). This 'double-tonic' tune is a variant of the “College Grove (The)” family of tunes, of which there are several excellent Irish cognates. O’Neill prints the tune in his Waifs and Strays (1922) and gives his source as Aird's Selections.
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Printed sources:
Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), 1797; p. 8 (appears as “Miss Corbet's Reel”).
Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 13.
Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Reels & Rants, Flings & Fancies), 1977; No. 130, p. 31.
MacGlashan (A Collection of Strathspey Reels for the Piano Forte, Violin, or German Flute), 1796.
O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 202.
Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 36.
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