Beatrice Hill's Three Handed Reel

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 Theme code Index    6555 7662H
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England
 Genre/Style    English
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Michael Raven
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:English Country Dance Tunes
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 157
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1984
 Artist    Biography:Grand Union Morris
 Title of recording    Can't Get the Buggers Out
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    1999
 Media    
 Score   ()   


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BEATRICE HILL'S THREE HANDED REEL. English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is sourced to melodeon player Beatrice Hill, of Bromsberrow Heath, Forest of Dean, Worcestershire, who recorded it in 1952 for collector Russell Wortley. Hill's father was the village publican and was 'King', or leader, of the Bromsberrow Heath Morris Dancers. The tune was also in the repertoire of East Anglia hammered dulcimer player Walter Geary (Norfolk) and harmonica player Dennis Crowther (south Shropshire), and has even surfaced in folk tradition in Australia, played by fiddler Charlie Bachelor as a schottische. It is also known by the title "Late Kelly's Wake" in Australia.

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; pg. 28. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 157.

Recorded sources: EFDSS CD13, Old Swan Band - "Hardcore English" (2007. Various artists). Music Club, "Traditional Morris Dance Music Album" (1998. Various artists). Wild Goose WGS 320, Old Swan Band - "Swan-Upmanship" (2004). Grand Union Morris - "Can't Get the Buggers Out" (1999).

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