Annotation:Reel de I'île Bizard
X:1 T:Reel de I'île Bizard T:Bizard Island Reel S:Joseph Allard (1873-1947, Montreal, Que.) M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig D:Victor 263871A, Joseph Allard (1932) F:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13096.mp3 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D A|dcd AFA|dfb a2f|{a}gfg ece|dfd AFA| dcd AFA|dfb a2f| {a}gfg Ace|d2d d2:| |:g|b2b bag|faa agf|{a}gfg Ace|ba^g a2a| gbb bag|faa agf|{a}gfg Ace|d2d d2:|
REEL DE I'ÎLE BIZARD (Bizard Island Reel). AKA and see "Doc Boyd's Jig," "Old Jubiter," "Reel du forgeron (2)," "Republican Set (The)." French-Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Reel de I'île Bizard", named for an island in the St. Lawrence River northwest of the island of Montreal, is fiddler Joseph Allard's (1873-1947) version of "Republican Set (The)," found Samuel Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981), and "Old Jubiter" from Ira Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940), records Allard researcher Jean Duval[1]. Bayard collected the tune from a fiddler in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1960, while Ira Ford had it from a source in Missouri. Neither one seems to indicate a provenance however, as Ford included tunes from a geographically widespread area, while Bayard's version was collected relatively late with an idiosyncratic title. Allard's source is unknown.
Duval also notes that the tune was recorded by The Cornhuskers as "Doc Boyd's Jig," a mid-20th century Canadian group that included fiddler Jean Carignan, a pupil of Allard's[2]. Allard himself re-recorded the tune six years later under the title "Reel du forgeron (2)" (Blacksmith's Reel).