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'''DOUCETTE'S DREAM'''. Canadian, Two-Step (cut time). Canada, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source Joseph Doucette (Prince Edward Island) said off-handedly the tune was "something he dreamt," and the title presumably came from Ken Perlman, called the unnamed tune after his source. However, the first strain is identical to "[[Dorset Four Hand Reel (2)]]," a country dance. | '''DOUCETTE'S DREAM'''. Canadian, Two-Step (cut time). Canada, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source Joseph Doucette (Prince Edward Island) said off-handedly the tune was "something he dreamt," and the title presumably came from Ken Perlman, called the unnamed tune after his source. However, the first strain is identical to the "[[Dorset Four Hand Reel (2)]]," a country dance. | ||
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Revision as of 03:36, 8 February 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
DOUCETTE'S DREAM. Canadian, Two-Step (cut time). Canada, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source Joseph Doucette (Prince Edward Island) said off-handedly the tune was "something he dreamt," and the title presumably came from Ken Perlman, called the unnamed tune after his source. However, the first strain is identical to the "Dorset Four Hand Reel (2)," a country dance.
Source for notated version: from fiddler Joseph Doucette (b. 1910, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 151.
Recorded sources: