Annotation:Soeurs (Les)
X: 1 T: les Soeurs H: taught by Guy Bouchard at Maine Fiddle Camp, Aug 9, 2010 R: crooked reel Z: 2010 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: There was a "C" chord in the penultimage bars of parts B that sounded strange, N: so I replaced it with the more normal-sounding "G" chord. S: printed MS of unknown origin M: C| L: 1/8 K: G "A"\ |: "G"{c}BAGB d2ge | "C"egec "D"d3B |1 "G"{c}BAGB d2ge | "C"egec "D"d3D :|2 "G"{c}BAGB d3g | "D"fgaf "G"g4 || "B"|| "G"G3B dBGB | "D"AFDF AFDF | "G"G3B dBGB | "D"AFDF G3D | "G"G3B dBGB | "D"AGFE DCB,A, | "G"G,G,B,D "C"G3B | "G"dBGB "D"AFDF | "G"G4 || "B 8va"|| "G"g3a bgdg | "D"afdf abaf | "G"g3b bgdg | "D"abaf g3d | g4 | "G"g3a bgdg | "D"agfe dcBA | "G"GGBd "C"g3a | "G"bgdg "D"abaf | "G"[g4B4] |]
SOEURS, LES (The Sisters). AKA and see “Reel à Neuf (Le).” French-Canadian, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABAB’. The ‘B’ parts are ‘crooked’, with a measure of 3/2 time at the end. Guy Bouchard notes that this tune is quite common in the older repertoire of Québecois fiddlers, though the versions are sometimes so different they sound like different tunes.
