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|f_annotation='''GROWLING OLD MAN AND (GRUMBLING OLD) WOMAN, THE'''. AKA – "[[Old Man and the Old Woman (2)]]," "[[Growling Old Man and Cackling Old Woman]]," "[[Marmotteuse (La)]]." AKA and see "[[Chicaneuse (La)]]," "[[Disputant (The)]]," "[[Disputeuse (La)]]." French Canadian (originally), New England; Reel. A Dorian ('A' part) & A Mixolydian ('B' part): A Mixolydian (Phillips). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (most versions): AA'BB' (Perlman). A Québec reel popularized by Maritime radio and TV fiddler Don Messer. It was taken up by "revival" fiddlers in the early 1970's and became a staple of New England contra dance repertoire, and has since become widely disseminated.  See Isidore Soucy's 'crooked' (irregularly metered) version, "[[Disputeuse (La)]]."  See also "[[Highlander's Farewell (4)]]," from the playing of Virginia fiddler Emmett Lundy, a tune much in the same character as "Growling Old Man," and perhaps related. 
|f_sources_for_notated_versions=Kenny Baker [Phillips]; Donna Hébert (Amherst, Mass.) [Fiddler Magazine]; Edward P. Arsenault (b. 1917, Chrysostom, East Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Steve Trampe [Silberberg].
|f_printed_sources=Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 128.
Carlin ('''Master Collection'''), 1984; No. 75, p. 51.
''Fiddler Magazine'', vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1966; p. 8.
Hinds/Hébert ('''Grumbling Old Woman'''), 1981; p. 17.
Miller & Perron ('''New England Fiddler's Repertoire'''), 1983; No. 148.
Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island'''), 1996; p. 87 (appears as "La Marmotteuse").
Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 107.
Silberberg ('''Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 57.
Susan Songer with Clyde Curley ('''Portland Collection vol. 3'''), 2015; p. 128 (as "La Marmotteuse").
Spadaro ('''10 Cents a Dance'''), 1980; p. 33.
Welling ('''Welling's Hartford Tunebook'''), 1976; p. 8.
|f_recorded_sources=Adelphi AD2004, Delaware Water Gap – "String Band Music."
Apex 26322-B (78 RPM), Don Messer (1950).
Bee Balm 302, "The Corndrinkers."
Biograph 6008, Ebenezer – "Fox Hollow String Band Festival."
CHCDC045, Donna Hébert – "Chanterelle, French in America."
County 725, The Riendeau Family – "Old-Time Fiddling."
Fretless 200A, Yankee Ingenuity – "Kitchen Junket" (1977).
Heritage XXXIII, The Correct Tone String Band – "Visits" (1981).
Philo 2000, "Louis Beaudoin" (1973, as "Growling Old Man and the Cackling Old Woman," heard on a Don Messer radio show in the 1950's).
Rounder 7008, "Jerry Holland" (appears as "The Old Man and the Old Woman").
Smithsonian Folkways Records SFW 40116, "Mademoiselle, voulez-vous danser?" (1999. Ron West. Various artists).
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g10.htm#Groolmaa]<br>
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t1129.html]<br>
Hear Don Messer's recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJzDBkBCFJo] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czhk5145KA]<br>
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