Annotation:L'Homme à Deux Femmes (2)
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L'HOMME À DEUX FEMMES [2] (The Man with Two Wives). French-Canadian, Quadrille (6/4 and 4/4 time). A Major. Standard or AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A quadrille figure from the playing of fiddler Claude Austin of Néguac, New Brunswick. M. Austin can be seen playing the tune the JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas, volume 1. Canada and the United States (1-10. French quadrille: Quadrille acadien, L'homme à deux femmes (The man with two wives), recorded in 1976; music played by Claude Austin (violin) and Gérald Fournier (guitar); danced by residents of Tracadie, New Brunswick).
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Recorded sources: Talencourt Musique TM-2009, Lisa Ornstein, André Marchand & Normand Miron - "Le Bruit Court Dans la Ville" (1997. Appears as last tune of "Parties de danses acadiennes").