Homeward Bound
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Homeward Bound" is a Canadian reel known in Canada and Prince Edward Island in D Major.<br> The parts are played AA'BB'.<br> It is a popular and frequently recorded reel among Cape Breton and PEI fiddlers. Ken Perlman,<br> who researched fiddling styles on Prince Edward Island, notes that this reel is frequently heard<br> played in the eastern half of the Island (where it was known as one of the 'good old tunes'), but<br> believes that it was originally from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, although it bears a strong<br> resemblance to the tune "Gem of Ireland" in Ryan's Mammoth/Cole's 1000. On PEI it is often heard<br> in a medley with "Jerome's Farewell to Gibralter". Paul Cranford (1994) believes that<br> "Homeward Bound" is derivative of the "Gem" tune which he identifies as a 19th-century Irish reel.<br> Francis O'Neill printed it as "Clarkson's Reel" in his Music of Ireland (1903).<br> It was printed in Cranford's Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes (1994),<br> Fiddler Magazine (Spring 1995),<br> MacQuarrie's Cape Breton Collection of Scottish Melodies (1940) and<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996).<br> It was recorded by Brenda Stubbert on Atlantic Fiddles (1994) and on House Sessions (1992),<br> The Old Time Fiddlers of Prince Edward Island (1993),<br> George Wilson on Royal Circus (2000) and<br> Leonard McDonald on Fiddlers of Western Prince Edward Island (1997).<br>
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