Annotation:Villalave
X:1 T:Villalave M:2/4 L:1/8 R:reel B:George P. Knauff – Virginia Reels, vol. II (Baltimore, 1839) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F c|(f/a/)c .d.e|(f/a/)c .d.e|(f/e/f/g/) (a/g/f/a/)|gc' (c'/b/a/g/)|(f/a/)c .d.e|(f/a/)c .d.e| (f/a/)(c' c'/)(b/g/e/)|f(a/g/) fc|(f/a/c/e/) (d/f/e/g)|(f/a/c/e/) (d/f/e/g/)|(f/e/f/g/) (a/f/b/a/)| (g/f/e/d/) (c/d/e/c/)|(f/a/c/e/) (d/f/e/g/)|(f/a/c/e/) (d/f/e/g/)|(f/a/).c'/.c'/ (c'/b/g/e/)|fa/g/ f|| e/f/|g>a (g/f/e/d)|(c/d/e/f/) (g/a/=b/c'/)|g>a (g/f/e/d/)|(c/d/e/c/) Gz| g>a (g/f/e/d/)|(c/d/e/f/) (g/a/_b/g/)|(f/a/c'/c'/) (c'/b/g/e/)|(f/c/a/g/) f||
VILLALAVE. American, Reel (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Almost a polka. The melody appears in George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels, volume II (Baltimore, 1839, No. 3, p. 2). Chris Goertzen, in his book George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling (2017, p. 60), remarks that, although all the other tunes in Knauff's second volume (a pamphlet of nine tunes) all had names that were geographically linked to 'Old Virginia', he was unable to trace the origin of the name Villalave. He speculates that it is a condensation of "Villa la Vie" or "Villa la Vé", and speculates that it may have been the name of a hotel in antebellum Virginia whose name did not survive in the historical record.
