View source for Annotation:Gigue de l'Aveugle (La)



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|f_annotation='''GIGUE DE L'AVEUGLE, LA.''' French-Canadian, Reel (2/4 time). E Major (Barbeau & Massicotte): A Major (Demers). Standard tuning (fiddle) if played in E; tune AEae for key of A. AABB' (Barbeau & Massicotte): AABBC (Demers). Mme. Catherine Dagenais-Major (Montreal) leaned the tune as a girl from the playing of a middle-aged blind man named Forget, who busked for dancing at the foot of Nelson's Column in Montreal. The dance he played she remembered as "Gigue de l'aveugle."   
|f_source_for_notated_version=Daniel Roy [Demers]. 
|f_printed_sources=Barbeau & Massicotte - "Veillees du bon vieux temps" (1920, pp. 88-89). Demers ('''1000 airs du Quebec et de l'Amerique francophone'''), 2020; p. 84.
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