Annotation:Partie de set de Valcartier

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PARTIE DE SET DE VALCARTIER. French-Canadian, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’CC. Guy Bouchard remarks that a Valcartier set is made up of six figures and that this tune is usually played for the second figure. A story about the tune goes that two fiddlers played this jig with different ‘B’ parts, and so as not to provoke ire among either of them they played the two ‘B’ parts one after another, and the tune was picked up that way by others. Bouchard identifies this tune as coming from the Valcartier area above Québec City, home to a large Irish-descended community that has retained Irish influences in their music.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Remon & Bouchard (Twenty-five Crooked Tunes, vol. 2), 1997; No. 12.

Recorded sources:

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