Annotation:Lacassine Special: Difference between revisions

Find traditional instrumental music
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 7: Line 7:
</font></p>
</font></p>
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
''Source for notated version'': Iry LeJeune (La.) [Francois].
''Source for notated version'': Iry LeJeune (La.) [Francois]. [[File:LeJeune.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Iry LeJeune (1919-1954)]]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>

Revision as of 01:47, 28 May 2012

Back to Lacassine Special


LACASSINE SPECIAL. Cajun, Two-Step. USA, southwestern Louisiana. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BB. A Cajun accordion favorite. Lacassine, Louiaiana, lies thirteen miles east of Lake Charles. The name is Spanish, not French, and means small house. Related songs, according to Raymond Francois (1990), are Merlin Fontenot's "La Danse de Coulee Croche" and the "Lacassine Breakdown."

Source for notated version: Iry LeJeune (La.) [Francois].

Iry LeJeune (1919-1954)



Printed sources: Francois (YĆ© Yaille Chere), 1990; pp. 193-195.

Recorded sources: Goldband Records GB-LP7740, Iry LeJeune.

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]




Back to Lacassine Special