Annotation:Johnnie's Made a Wedding O't
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHNNIE'S MADE A WADDIN'/WEDDING O'T. Scottish, Canadian; Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, McGlashan, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). The tonality cleverly shifts between major and minor. John Glen (1891) finds the tune earliest in print in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 6), although J. Murdoch Henderson (1935) cites the tune in Neil Stewart's 1762 collection. The reel is a popular one in Cape Breton repertoire.
Variants in Irish repertoire are several: "Johnny's Wedding," "Colonel McBain's," "Seán Frank," "Smoky House (1) (The)," and "Sporting Molly" appear in the repertoire. See also "Devonshire Reel (1) (The)" and "Duke of Clarence Reel (The)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 42, p. 7. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 131. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; p. 18 (appears as "Johnny's made a Wadding O'it"). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 190. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 136.
Recorded sources:
See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]