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HOMMAGE À JOS BOUCHARD. French-Canadian, Jig. B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'A"A"'B"B"'A"" (Bégin). Composed by French-Canadian button-accordionist Philippe Bruneau for the celebrated violinist Joseph Bouchard (Pointe-au-Pic, Québec), whose recordings, beginning in 1938, influenced a generation of French-Canadian fiddlers. Fiddler Pascal Gemme (of the group Genticorum) remarks that the melody is in Galoppe form, meaning that each part is twice the usual length of a tune-16 bars, rather than 8. The second part necessarily goes into third position if the key of B minor is used; many fiddlers prefer to play the tune in A minor to avoid the shift.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bégin (Philippe Bruneau), 1993; No. 72, p. 107.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''HOMMAGE Àà JOS BOUCHARD'''. French-Canadian, Jig. B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'A"A"'B"B"'A"" (Bégin). Composed by French-Canadian  button-accordionist Philippe Bruneau for the celebrated violinist Joseph Bouchard (Pointe-au-Pic, Québec), whose recordings, beginning in 1938, influenced a generation of French-Canadian fiddlers. Fiddler Pascal Gemme (of the group Genticorum) remarks that the melody is in Galoppe form, meaning that each part is twice the usual length of a tune-16 bars, rather than 8. The second part necessarily goes into third position if the key of B minor is used; many fiddlers prefer to play the tune in A minor to avoid the shift.
+'''HOMMAGE À JOS BOUCHARD'''. French-Canadian, Jig. B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'A"A"'B"B"'A"" (Bégin). Composed by French-Canadian  button-accordionist Philippe Bruneau for the celebrated violinist Joseph Bouchard (Pointe-au-Pic, Québec), whose recordings, beginning in 1938, influenced a generation of French-Canadian fiddlers. Fiddler Pascal Gemme (of the group Genticorum) remarks that the melody is in Galoppe form, meaning that each part is twice the usual length of a tune-16 bars, rather than 8. The second part necessarily goes into third position if the key of B minor is used; many fiddlers prefer to play the tune in A minor to avoid the shift.
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