Annotation:Mussel Breakdown

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MUSSEL BREAKDOWN (Reel des moules). Canadian, Reel. Canada, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "Mussell Breakdown"/"Reel des moules" was composed by Wellington, East Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Acadian-style fiddler Edward P. Arsenault (b. 1938). Curiously the first strain of "Mussel Breakdown" is quite similar to the first strain of another shellfish-titled tune, the Irish reel "Lobster (The)" (An ).

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|1}} Source for notated version : - Edward P. Arsenault [Perlman]. {{safesubst:#invoke:string|rep|
|2}} Printed sources : - Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 102. {{safesubst:#invoke:string|rep|
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