Annotation:Valse de Opelousas

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VALSE DE OPELOUSAS (Opelousas Waltz). Cajun, Waltz. USA, southwestern Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Raymond Francois (1990) remarks that the town of Opelousas, Louisiana, is an old city, once the site of an Indian trading post. The name derives from an Indian word for "dark or murky water." The original recording was made in 1959, "...among the first records to be made at Floyd Soileau's studio in Ville Platte."

Source for notated version: accordionist Austin Pitre, Aubrey "Cabri" Menier (La.) [Francois].

Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 436-437.

Recorded sources: Swallow Records SW-LP6041, Austin Pitre.

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