Annotation:Quadrille Montcalm
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QUADRILLE MONTCALM (Montcalm's Quadrille). French-Canadian, Quadrille (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Montcalm was the French defender on Quebec's Plains of Abraham, slain by the English under Wolfe, although it is also the name of a grand hotel in Quebec, near the site of the battle.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cuillerier (Joseph Allard: Cinquante airs traditionnels pour violon), 1992; p. 13.
Recorded sources: Bluebird B-4876-a (78 RPM), Joseph Allard (1929).
See also listing at:
Hear Joseph Allard's 1929 recording at Virtual Gramophone [1]
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