Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 22nd 2003 by shaku.
This tune has been added to 94 tunebooks.
Also known as Les Cinq Jumelles, Reel Des Cinq Joumelles.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dionne
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|"A"Adfd gdfd|Adfd ed (3Bcd|Adfd gdfd|efec d2(3dcB|
Adfd gdfd|Adfd ed (3Bcd|Adfd gdfd|efec d2fg|]
|"B"afbf afde|fded Bcde|afbf afde|fded d2fg|
afbf afde|fded Bcde|afbf afde|fded d2:|
"C"A|~B2AG BGAG|BGAG EFGA|~B2AG BGAG|EGFA G3:|
|:"D"F2Ad fdAF|G2Bd ~g3B|ABce gece|defg afdA|
F2Ad fdAF|G2Bd ~g3B|ABce gece|[1 dfec dBAG:|[2 dfec defg|]
|:"E"a2fd afda|g2e=c gefg|a2fd afda|[1 gece defg:|[2 gece d3B:|
Hmmmm....taking my lead from Jeremy's invitation to "talk about how much [I]...dislike this reel,"--I have to add this to Atholl Highlanders as the only other tune I never want to play. I don't like how cut off each part is from the next, like parts of a bicycle, toilet, and cuisinart bolted to a canoe. Ugh. But that's just my vapid little opinion....
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by Will Harmon
LOL -- I don't mind this one so much...it's French Canadian, isn't it? Named after the Dionne Quintuplets? I know how much you like the Breton music, Will, maybe that's why you don't like this one so much. *grin* I loved the Celtic Fiddle Festival playing it along with Mouth of the Tobique.
Zina
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by Zina Lee
Now I know which tune to play incessantly at the Montana session
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by Dr. Dow
Mark, "Montana" is the US state south of us. This summer's mega session will be in my home town, here in *Manitoba.* Make sure you get the destination right when you buy those plane tickets...wouldn't want you showing up all ready to play Dionne and realize you're in the wrong country....
The quints, eh? I was thinking maybe this musical collage (I'm trying to be polite) was some misguided ode to Celine....
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by Will Harmon
LOL -- talk about adding insult to injury... Well, Will, considering the life the poor quints led, perhaps that explains your aversion to the tune, yes?
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Dionne.html
P.S. Mark, you don't believe him, do you? Heh.
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by Zina Lee
Quintuplets
Wow, i had no idea. This is just like that Simpsons episode with Apu's octuplets!
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by glauber
Oh dear, i can't quite see Apu abusing his kids...even The Simpsons has some depths to which they will not go!
Of course, *now* it occurs to me that perhaps someone named the tune the Dionne because it has five parts...?
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by Zina Lee
No I don't believe him at all Zina! Actually, if I ended up in Manitoba I'd be okay 'cause I have relatives there apparently. I could walk round trying to find them. The place can't be that big
For your sins Will, I will play you "The Atholl Highlanders" very fast in E major on my concertina during the session... I know: I could play it in a different key each time, and perhaps accelerate gradually until by the end I have reached a speed that cannot be supported by my technique...
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by Dr. Dow
And how fast would that be, Dow?
ouch!
Zina, they ran out of money and had to put the babies in some kind of baby zoo for people to look at, sponsored by the diaper manufacturer, i think. In the end everything is fine again.
If this tune was really inspired by quintuplets, shouldn't it have five *identical* parts?
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by glauber
hmm - terrible - I know nothing of the US so I believed what you said Will - again!
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by bb
Right, so I have this LOVELY picture of us all playing The Dionne/Mouth of the Tobique and switching up into jigs with Jig of Slurs and Atholl Highlanders, right AT Will in the middle of his own session...
No one but you guys will be able to figure out why I'm falling over laughing the whole time.
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by Zina Lee
Glauber, these five parts may not be identical, but they *are* indistinguishable....
Wonder if shaku will ever grace us with his/her reason for liking the tune well enough to post it.
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by Will Harmon
I'd forgotten about the Jig of Slurs. It's so long since I played that I can't even remember how it starts. I'll have to get some practice in for Will's session. What about "The Kesh" (just for bb's sake), into "The Atholl Highlanders", then into "The Jig Of Slurs", and then back into the Jig of Slurs again, transposed into the aeolian mode, with F and C naturals and B flats? I should go back over all the old discussion threads to find out everyone's favourite tunes!
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by Dr. Dow
Glauber,
The answer is: 0 beats per minute, since I haven't learnt the Atholl Highlanders on the concertina. Also I'm a beginner and can't play "very fast" anyway; I can but dream ...
# Posted on January 23rd 2003 by Dr. Dow
Lovely, Mark! Then we can have very fast, very badly played versions of all these tunes...! Gawd, somebody bring your mini-disc recorder, we have to have a recording of this wonderful uber-grinch set -- we shall have to sit on each individual to get them to stay in the circle as we hit their favorite tune!
# Posted on January 24th 2003 by Zina Lee
Looks like Zina provided me the perfect reason to learn the Dionne. I'll work up a good second part for Atholl and Slurs as well. What a reason to cross the country to Will's home. Spite!! I'm going to have my head examined!
:D
# Posted on January 24th 2003 by Mark Cordova
Yeah I'll try and figure out a busy counterpoint for these tunes. I was thinking of maybe superimposing the tune in a different key - that would be a nice modern touch wouldn't it? Perhaps a 4th apart would sound good, kind of like an "Eastern" feel to it.
# Posted on January 24th 2003 by Dr. Dow
Who composed it?
Who composed the Dionne reel
# Posted on February 20th 2004 by no39
Dionne reel - Some great banter here - do read it!
........ but nothing since Feb 2004!
I actually like it, especially where Burke + CFF pair it with Mouth of the Tobique
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by domnull
This is recorded on Tickle Harbour's "The Brule Boys in Paris" (1991) a cd now out of print, and the group (from Newfoundland) is no longer together afaik.
# Posted on January 2nd 2007 by ballyfingers
Also on Button & Bows
It's beautifully played on Buttons & Bows. It does seem like a put together reel- clichés strung together. But it works for me- especially when played by Jackie Daley and Manus McGuire. great lift to it and terrific energy.
# Posted on February 19th 2007 by David Levine
We managed to snag a copy of "Brule Boys" about a year ago at one of those big record stores in Toronto.
As for the "Dionne Reel", it's a super-common tune in Canada. Pascal Gemme provides a nice recording and talks a little bit about its "composition" here: http://tradquebec.over-blog.com/categorie-1078429.html
# Posted on February 8th 2008 by Sol Foster