Blueberry Jig

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Theme code Index	1H11H5H 4H747b
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Composer/Core Source	Biography:Andy Dejarlis
Region	Canada
Genre/Style	Metis
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History	CANADA(Western Canada)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Stacy Phillips
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Traditional American Fiddle Tunes vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	p. 359
Year of publication/Date of MS	1995
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BLUEBERRY JIG. Canadian, American; Jig. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune, one of the 175 or so compositions by Métis fiddler Andy Dejarlis (1914-1975), features 'double tonic' tonality. Dejarlis was called by Don Messer "one of the greatest exponents of old-time music in Canada."

Source for notated version: Stuart Williams [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 359. Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn't Learn at Tractor Tavern), 2004; p. 7.

X:2
T:Blueberry Jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:by Andy DeJarlis
S:from WA fiddlers Don Gish and Chuck Griffin, via Stuart Williams
R:Jig
N:This is a classic Canadian "first change" square dance jig.
Z:Stuart Williams transcribed this by hand, from tapes of WA O.T. fiddler
Z:Don Gish, and it was later identified for him by Chuck Griffin
Z:(Olympia, WA).  Later Stuart published it in the Evergreen Fiddler
Z:Tunebook, V1, 2002-2002.  abc's Phil Katz 10/2005, from Stuart's hand
Z:mss and published versions.
K:D
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