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"The Honeymoon Reel", also known as "The Half-Penny" is an English, Scottish and
American reel in A dorian. The parts are played AABB or AB in Cole.
I don't have any history for this tune. I found it in Cole. The tune interestingly puts long notes on beat two or sometimes beat three of a number of measures giving it an atypical bouncing feel. Whether this indicates that the tune was used for a special dance or not, I can't say. It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Giblin's Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music (1928), Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2, Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984), Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and White's Unique Collection (1896). |