Annotation:Red Shoes (The): Difference between revisions
Alan Snyder (talk | contribs) (Fix HTML, citation) |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
<p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> | <p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> | ||
'''RED SHOES, THE.''' Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Minor (MacQuarrie): A Mixolydian (Fitzgerald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer [[biography:Dan R. MacDonald]] (1911–1976) of Judique, the first tune he composed, as he told Allister MacGillivary (quoted in his '''The Cape Breton Fiddler'''). The title of the reel was inspired by a pair of homemade shoes fashioned by Angus D. MacEachern of Glendale, Cape Breton, which the maker had stained a bright crimson with Sherwin-Williams paint. MacDonald evidently composed it as a minor-mode tune—as it appears in MacQuarrie's '''The Cape Breton Collection''' (1940) it had minor intervals throughout—but it can be played in dorian mode (one sharp), and Winston Fitzgerald set it in mixolydian mode (2 sharps), or pipe tuning. In its mixolydian form (a la Fitzgerald) it remains a popular session reel in the Cape Breton repertory and is frequently recorded. | '''RED SHOES, THE.''' Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Minor (MacQuarrie): A Mixolydian (Fitzgerald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer [[biography:Dan R. MacDonald]] (1911–1976) of Judique, the first tune he composed, as he told Allister MacGillivary (quoted in his '''The Cape Breton Fiddler'''). The title of the reel was inspired by a pair of homemade shoes fashioned by Angus D. MacEachern of Glendale, Cape Breton, which the maker had stained a bright crimson with Sherwin-Williams paint. MacDonald evidently composed it as a minor-mode tune—as it appears in MacQuarrie's '''The Cape Breton Collection''' (1940) it had minor intervals throughout—but it can be played in dorian mode (one sharp), and Winston Fitzgerald set it in mixolydian mode (2 sharps), or pipe tuning. In its mixolydian form (a la Fitzgerald) it remains a popular session reel in the Cape Breton repertory and is frequently recorded. | ||
<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Early in the 21st century a pub in Mabou was renamed after this tune. | |||
<br> | <br> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
Revision as of 00:20, 1 November 2017
Back to Red Shoes (The)
RED SHOES, THE. Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Minor (MacQuarrie): A Mixolydian (Fitzgerald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer biography:Dan R. MacDonald (1911–1976) of Judique, the first tune he composed, as he told Allister MacGillivary (quoted in his The Cape Breton Fiddler). The title of the reel was inspired by a pair of homemade shoes fashioned by Angus D. MacEachern of Glendale, Cape Breton, which the maker had stained a bright crimson with Sherwin-Williams paint. MacDonald evidently composed it as a minor-mode tune—as it appears in MacQuarrie's The Cape Breton Collection (1940) it had minor intervals throughout—but it can be played in dorian mode (one sharp), and Winston Fitzgerald set it in mixolydian mode (2 sharps), or pipe tuning. In its mixolydian form (a la Fitzgerald) it remains a popular session reel in the Cape Breton repertory and is frequently recorded.
Early in the 21st century a pub in Mabou was renamed after this tune.
Source for notated version: Francis MacDonald (b. 1940, Morell Rear, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914–1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources:
Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes), 1997; No. 90, p. 38.
MacQuarrie (Cape Breton Collection of Scottish Melodies), 1940; p. 50.
Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 105.
Shears (Cape Breton Collection of Bagpipe Music), 1995; p. 38.
Recorded sources:
Gael-Linn Records CEFCD165, Maire O'Keeffe – "Cóisir. House Party" (1993).
Rounder Records 7008, "Jerry Holland" (197?).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear Natalie MacMaster and Buddy MacMaster play the tune on youtube.com [3]