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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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Item Title
[Quince Dillion's High-D Reel]
Author/Creator
Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Performer: Reed, Gene; guitar
Created/Published
May 06, 1967
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)
Notes
Henry Reed gave no name to this tune, though he played it twice and also played two sets of a tune in G with the same first strain (see "Breakdown in G," AFS 13037a01, AFS 13033b25). This tune cannot be traced to other sources. It somehow came to be thought of as a tune Henry Reed learned from Quince Dillion, though there is no concrete evidence of this in the fieldnotes from the 1960s, and it has gone back into circulation among some performers in the old-time music revival under the title "Quince Dillion's High-D Reel," the title used here. The guitar accompaniment by Henry Reed's son Gene is interesting in that he uses a minor-seven chord (here a C chord in the key of D). By the testimony of all his children, Henry Reed was a stickler for "the right chords," so we can assume that the chords represent Henry Reed's own musical choices. It is sometimes thought that such chords as minor-seventh chords are "untraditional" among older musicians; this is evidence to the contrary. Henry Reed's son James plays "Quince Dillion's High-D Reel" with four parts and explains that his father used to play the two extra strains but had omitted them in the recordings presented here.
Title change: The title appeared in the fieldnotes as "Unnamed."
Key: D
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-4)
Rendition: 1r-2r-1r-tag
Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQC (abcd abef qrst qref)
Compass: 14 (17 including grace-note run on G-string)
Spoken: HENRY REED: You done?
Recording chronology: 109
Related Tune(s): [Breakdown in G]
Duration: 53 seconds
Subject
Breakdowns
Reels
Fiddle tunes
Instrumentals--fiddle and guitar
Ethnography
Music
United States--Virginia--Giles County--Glen Lyn
Object Type
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFC LWO 5379 reel 1B, AFS 13703B:09
Digital ID
afcreed 13703b09
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13703b09