Annotation:Gigue de l'Aveugle (La)

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X:1 T:Gigue de l'aveugle, La S:Mme. Catherine Dagenais-Major (Montreal) M:2/4 L:1/8 B:Barbeau & Massicotte - "Veillees du bon vieux temps" (1920, pp. 88-89) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:E z B/A/ G/E/E/G/|F/E/G/B,/ B,E/F/|G/E/G/E/ A/F/F/F/4A/4|G/E/A/F/ F(3G/A/B/|c/>d/e/>c/ B/>AG/>E/|!fine!E:| "II"(z) G/B/B/B/|:G/B/B/B/ G/B/e/B/|(5c/B/A/G/F/ A/c/c/c/|A/c/c/c/ A/c/f/e/|d/c/B G/B/B/B/|G/B/B/B/ G/B/e/B/| |1 c/B/A/G/ A/c/c/c/|A/c/c/c/ A/c/f/e/|d/c/B G/B/B/B/:|2 c/B/A/G/ F/G/A/B/|c/d/e/e/ d/e/f/e/|e/>c/B/>A/ G/>E/E/>E/|E2 z!D.C.!||

GIGUE DE L'AVEUGLE, LA. French-Canadian, Reel (2/4 time). E Major (Barbeau & Massicotte): A Major (Demers). Standard tuning (fiddle) if played in E; tune AEae for key of A. AABB' (Barbeau & Massicotte): AABBC (Demers). Mme. Catherine Dagenais-Major (Montreal) leaned the tune as a girl from the playing of a middle-aged blind man named Forget, who busked for dancing at the foot of Nelson's Column in Montreal. The dance he played she remembered as "Gigue de l'aveugle."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Daniel Roy [Demers].

Printed sources : - Barbeau & Massicotte - "Veillees du bon vieux temps" (1920, pp. 88-89). Demers (1000 airs du Quebec et de l'Amerique francophone), 2020; p. 84.

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