Annotation:Drunken Reel (2) (The)
X:1 T:Drunken Reel [2], The M:C L:1/8 B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 43, pp. 8-9) B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-479.8556%2C42.7452%2C4235.3267%2C1481.5886 N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F cFF/F/F cBAB|cFFA BcdB|cFF/F/F cBAc|BAGA BcdB| cFF/F/F cBAB|cFFA BcdB|cFF/F/F cBAc|dGGA Bcde|| fafd cdcA|fefd efga|fafd cdcA|BAGA Bcde| fafd cdcA|fefd efgb|afge fdcA|BAGA BcdB||
DRUNKEN REEL [2], THE. AKA - "Drinking Reel (The)." Irish, Reel (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The "Drunken Reel [2]" was entered into the music manuscript collection of musician biography:Stephen Grier, of Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim. Fr. John Quinn notes cognate status with "Allonby Lasses" from the 19th century Browne Family manuscripts (Lake District, Cumbria), which also was found by Hugh and Lisa Shields to be cognate with Canon James Goodman's "Touch Her if You Dare," from his own mid-19th century music manuscript. Thus there is a cognate relationship of reels in three 19th century musicians manuscript collections from County Cork and Leitrim in Ireland, and Cumbria in England. A version of "The Drunken Reel [2]" is also contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1] When Donnellan published the tune in the County Louth Archaeological Society journal he amended the title to the more morally palatable 'The Drinking Reel'.
- ↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.