Annotation:Gigue à Prosper
X:1 T:Gigue à Prosper S:Pit Jornoch/Pierre Verret (1863-1937) M:C| L:1/8 N:Informed by "Keel Row"? N:Play the first A part , D:Jean-Marie Verret –"Rend Hommage à Pit Jornoch 1863-1937" (1990) D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfFrL4KeELs Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D P:A FA|:GB ((3B/c/B/A) dAFA|GB ((3B/c/B/A) E2 (F/G/A)|GB ((3B/c/B/A) Adfa|{ga}gece dAFA| GB((3B/c/B/A) dAFA|GB((3B/c/B/A) E2 (F/G/A)|GB ((3B/c/B/A) Adfa|1-3{ga}gece dAFA:|2[M:1/2]{ga}gece||"fin"d4|| P:B |:[M:C|]dfAd {fg}f2df|{ga}g2eg fddf|ec {d}(c/B/A) ffdf|{ga}g2eg fdec| dfAd {fg}f2df|{ga}g2eg fddf|ec {d}(c/B/A) ffdf|1g2 ag ((3f/g/f/e) ce:|2[M:6/4]gbag ((3f/g/f/e) ce dAFA|| P:A" |:[M:C|]GBFA dAFA |GBFA E2FA|GBFA Adfa|1-3{ga}gece dAFA:|4 [M:1/2]{ga}gece|| P:B |:[M:C|]dfAd {fg}f2df|{ga}g2eg fddf|ec {d}(c/B/A) ffdf|{ga}g2eg fdec| dfAd {fg}f2df|{ga}g2eg fddf|ec {d}(c/B/A) ffdf|1g2 ag ((3f/g/f/e) ce:|2[M:6/4]gbag ((3f/g/f/e) ce dAFA||
GIGUE À PROSPER. French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). D Major Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Gigue à Prosper" is from the Verret family of Lac-Saint-Charles, Quebec, four generations of remarkable musicians. The source for the tune is perhaps 'Pit Jornoch', a nickname for a fiddler and woodcutter named Pierre Verret (no relation), a friend from the next Parish of accordion player Jean-Baptiste Verret (1894-1955), the scion of the musical family. Jean-Marie Verret, who recorded an album of Pit Jornoch's tunes, is Jean-Baptiste's grandson. He recalled:
My father [fiddler Jules Verret] always considered him to be the greatest fiddler he had ever heard in his life. I was told that Pierre Verret learned his repertoire and style from Charlot Parent from Charlesbourg, which is a few kilometers southeast [of Lac St-Charles], and at the time just a village.[1]
