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Christmas Day reel

There are 2 recordings of this tune.

Christmas Day has been added to 2 tune sets.

Christmas Day has been added to 21 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Christmas Day
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
d2 fd AF~F2|DFBF AFEF|D2 dB AFDF|G2 BG EFGE|!
D2 dB AF~F2|DFBF AFAB|FAdf edAF|((3GAB) EG FDD2:||!
ad ~d2 Adfd|adfd edBd|ad ~d2 Adfd|gfeg fdd2|!
ad ~d2 Adfd|adfd edBd|d2 ((3Bcd) AdFB|AFEG FD D2:||
2
X: 2
T: Christmas Day
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
d2 fd AF~F2|DFBF AFEF|D2 dB AFDF|G2 BG EFGE|!
D2 dB AF~F2|DFBF AFAB|FAdf edAF|((3GAB) EG FDD2:||!
ad ~d2 Adfd|adfd edBd|ad ~d2 Adfd|gfeg fdd2|!
ad ~d2 Adfd|adfd edBd|d2 ((3Bcd) AdFB|AFEG FD D2:||

Three comments

Christmas Day - Version 2

Just a couple of changes which I think improve the flow of the tune (apologies to the two people who’ve already downloaded it). These are in bars 4 and 5 of the first part and the last two bars of the turn which are completely re-written as shown in the setting below:-

d2 fd AF~F2|DFBF AFEF|D2 dB AFDF|G2 BG EFGE|!
D2 dB AF~F2|DFBF AFAB|FAdf edAF|((3GAB) EG FDD2:||!
ad ~d2 Adfd|adfd edBd|ad ~d2 Adfd|gfeg fdd2|!
ad ~d2 Adfd|adfd edBd|d2 ((3Bcd) AdFB|AFEG FD D2:||

Christmas Day

Isn’t this the tune against which you can play The Troika from Lieutenant Kijay (not sure of spelling here) as a counter melody?
Noel

Christmas Day

As this tune was composed on Christmas Day 2007 it’s highly unlikely that someone has found a counter melody for it already!