Annotation:Turlutte à Honoré St-Pierre (La)

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X:1 T:Turlutte à Honoré St-Pierre, La N:"Turlutte" means 'mouth music'. C:Trad. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel K:D |:A2F D2 FA|GFED (EF)F2|A3F D2 FA|[M:6/4]GFED EDEF DD D2| [M:C|]A,2 DE F3E|D2 FA GFED|EF F2 A,2 DE|F3E D2 FA|[M:6/4]GFED EDEF DD D2||

Turlutte à Honoré St-Pierre (La) TURLUTTE À HONORÉ ST-PIERRE, LA. French-Canadian, Reel (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. A turlutte is 'mouth-music', similar to the Gaelic puert-a-beul', a dance tune vocally 'diddled' with nonsense syllables. It was often used to accompany dancers when no fiddler was available.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p.

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