X:1
T:Gigue du corbeau
N:From the 1936 recording by Isidore Soucy (1899-1963, Montreal) at the
N:Virtual Gramphone
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1007643484
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
D:Bluebird B-4812 (78 RPM), Isidore Soucy (1936)
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/14621.mp3
B:Duval - La Musique de Isidore Soucy (2017, No. 184)
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:D
fg|a2 ab agfe|d2 [df][df][d2f2] Ad|fdAd fdAf|ecAc e2fg|
a2 ab agfe|d2 [df][df][d2f2] Ad|fgfd edef|[M:2/4]d2 :|
Ad|fdAc d2Ad|fdAc d2ef|gfed cABc|[M:2/4]d2 Ad|
fdAc d2Ad|fdAc d2ef|gfed cABc|[M:2/4]d2 ||
GIGUE DU CORBEAU (The Raven's Jig). French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Isidore Soucy researcher Jean Duval finds that the first strain of the tune is similar to the 5th Set of the "Lancer's Quadrilles" (see Lancers Quadrilles Fifth Figure (1)
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X:1
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
(B/c/)|(d/^c/)d/e/ (d/=c/)B/A/|GG {A}G/F/G/A/|BB {c}B/A/B/c/|BAA (B/c/)|
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) by Lithuanian-born opera composer Feliks Yaniewicz [1] (1762-1949), published in Dublin in 1817[1]. Soucy recorded a slightly different version of the tune two years later, in 1938, under the title "Quadrille Yvette."
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Demers (1000 airs du Québec et de l'Amérique francophone), 2020; p. 93. Jean Duval (La Musique de Isidore Soucy 1899-1962), 2017; No. 184, p. 93.
Recorded sources : - Bluebird B-4812 (78 RPM), Isidore Soucy (1936).
See also listing at :
Hear Isidore Soucy's 1936 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [2]
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