"Reel de Montréal", also known as "Reel de Sherbrooke", "Reel de Vaudreuil",
"Set de Vaudreuil 3ème partie" or "Sherbrooke Reel" is a French-Canadian and
New England reel in cut time and G Major ('A' part) and D Major ('B' part).
The parts are played AABB (Miller & Perron) or AA’BB’ (Songer).
The British hornpipe "Navvy on the Line" attributed to early 19th century Tyneside fiddler James Hill, is cognate in the first strain, as is "London Hornpipe". It was printed in Miller & Perron's New England Fiddlers Repertoire (1983), Page's Ralph Page Book of Contras (1969) and Songer's Portland Collection (1997). It was recorded by Heri Lacroix (1928), Jospeh Allard (1930) (as "Set de Vaudreuil 3ème partie", part of a suite of country dances, with figures voiced by a caller on the recording), Jean Carignan, J.O. LaMadeleine (1937) (as "Reel de Vaudreuil"), Gaston Dufresne (1945) (as "Reel de Sherbrooke"), Yankee Ingenuity on Kitchen Junket (1977), Northern Spy on Choose Your Partners!: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire (1999). |