KelticDead Music

The mission of the KelticDead Music initiative is to find tunes and songs from around the world that have

Celtic, Folk, World, Americana, and Seafaring origins, and arrange them into simple sheet music formats for folk

musicians to use, as well as provide links for the music that follows the arrangements to help in hearing how it can

be played. In addition, other links are provided for the stories and possible lyrics about the selections within video-

based, KDM Broadsides for a music-education experience.

All the selections and sheet music content provided in the KelticDead Music initiative are from

traditional, made-public, made-public with credits, or cited credits where applicable. This material

content is given with permissions. Patrick O. Young, KelticDead Music.

Saint Anne’s Reel

This 4/4 time tune, as a “reel,” is popular in the music traditions out of the Maritime

Provinces of Canada, and from Brittany in France. The Maritime provinces include

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, but not to be confused with

the entire Atlantic section of Canada which also includes Newfoundland and

Labrador. Brittany is a peninsula on the west coast of France with very similar music

traditions.

For many years Saint Anne was a

“patron” saint, or someone with God’s

graces, but not “canonized” by the

Catholic Church of Rome. The Roman

Catholic Church on October 21^st, 1584

under Pope Urban VIII officially

approved and canonized Saint Anne.

Saint Anne is still viewed as offering

protection and support for sailors from

storms, and she helps provide support

and strength for unwed mothers. The

concept of patron saints is somewhat

controversial amongst scholars in the

Roman Catholic Church, because the

idea of honoring patron saints who

oversee certain geographical regions,

Made public painting. Saint Anne as

Grandmother and mother of the Virgin Mary.

or asking for protection in certain

trades or for identification of groups of

people sounds very similar to the

concept of “patron deities” within the

old Roman Empire.

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