X:1
T:Untitled Jig (Don Messer Tune)
T:Mallais' Jig
S:Fidel Martin (1966, Berlin, N.H.), recorded by Art Rosenbaum
M:6/8
L:1/8
N:"Fidel Martin's first tune, taught to him by Mr. Mallais of
N:Chatham, N.B., - 1900" [Corfield]
B:Corfield - "Tunes from New Brunswick" (2024, p. 172)
F:https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objects/331630
F:at 19:44
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz from Rosenbaum's field recording
K:D
dfa ddd|cBe B/c/BA|cea (g/4a/4g/)fe|dcB AFA|
dfa ddd|cBe/e/ c(B/4c/4B/)A|cea (g/4a/4g/)fe|ABc (c/4c/4d/-d)A:|
|:F2E (DF)A|(GF)G EFG|AAA ABc|dcd (B/4c/4B/)AG|
F2 ((3E/F/E/ D) FA|(GF)G EFG|AAA ABc|1 def d2d:|2 def d2A||
|:[M:6/8]dcd AFA|dcd AFA|dcd def|e2 e ece|
AFA eee|AFA c2e|agf/e/ B2c|1[M:3/8]ddd:|2[M:3/8]ddA||
MALLAIS' JIG. Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). Canada, New Brunswick. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. This untitled jig was identified as a "Don Messer Tune" on field recorder Art Rosenbaum's 1966 recording of New Brunswick fiddler Fidel Martin, then living in Berlin, N.H. The association with Messer seems tentative. Peter Corfield (2024) assigns the name "Mallais' Jig" to the tune, as Martin was recorded on the tape saying that it was the first tune he learned as a boy, from Mr. Mallais of Chatham, N.B., around the year 1900. The tune then predates radio and TV fiddler Don Messer (who was born in 1909), although it is possible Messer recorded it at some point.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 172.
See also listing at : Hear Art Rosenbaum's 1966 field recording at the Univ. of Georgia [1] (at 19:44).
