Pride of the Ball
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Pride of the Ball", also known as "The Family Estate", "The Girl with the Handsome Face",<br> "Joshua Gray", "MacKenzie's Farewell to Ross-Shire", "McKenna's Reel", "Miss Wright's Reel",<br> "Mollie's Bonnet", "Molloy's Night Cap", "Pigeon on the Gate", "The Queen's Wedding",<br> "Speed the Plow", "Steeple Chase", "The Swallow’s Tail Reel", "Take Your Hand Away" or<br> "Village Reel" is a Scottish, Irish, Canadian and American reel in A Dorian.<br> The parts are played AABB (Cole, Harding, Joyce, Kennedy, Kerr, O’Neill) or AA’BB’ (Perlman).<br> A member of the "The Swallowtail Reel/Swallow’s Tail Reel" tune family, a large and widely<br> disseminated tune family popular in Scotland and Ireland and in North America.<br> Perlman (1996) notes that there is some confusion between this tune and "Pigeon on the<br> Gatepost", in fact, several of the variants he lists (such as "Roddy Joe's Reel" and<br> "The Twin Sisters") are also listed as variants for "Pigeon on the Gatepost" (not the same tune<br> as "Pigeon on the Gate".<br> The tune was also collected by Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, 1981) as an untitled reel<br> collected from a fiddler he met from Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the 1930's.<br> Ken Perlman collected it from PEI fiddlers some sixty years later.<br> It was printed in Bégin's Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley (1985),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Harding's Collection and Harding's Original Collection,<br> Henebry's A Handbook of Irish Music (1928),<br> Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, vol. 18 (1921)(as "The Village Reel"),<br> Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909)(appears as an untitled reel),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book: Reels & Rants, Flings & Fancies (1977),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880’s),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 4 (c. 1880’s),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996).<br>
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