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T:Turlutte acadienne
S:Bryn Wilkin
Z:robin.beech@mcgill.ca
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
FG |: A2A2 d2cA | B2G2- GBAG | FGAB A2GE | F2D2- DGFG |
A2A2 d2cA | B2G2- GBAG |1 FGAA B2G2- | GGFG :|2 FGAA B2G2 |:
d2ce d2cA | B2G2- G=fef | d2cA B2G2- | GBAG FGAB | A2GE F2D2- |
D4 |d2ce d2cA | B2G2- G=fef | d2cA B2G2- | GGFG |]
TURLUTTE ACADIENNE. AKA and see "Reel du Baobab (Le)." French-Canadian, Reel (whole time). G Major (‘A’ part) & G Mixolydian (‘B’ part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A turlutte is a kind of mouth-music similar to Scottish port-a-beul, with syllables sung instead of words.
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - flute player Daniel Roy who found this ‘mouth-music’ tune on an old Acadian archive recording from the La Mecque area of New Brunswick [Remon & Bouchard].
Printed sources : - Remon & Bouchard (Airs Tordus/25 Crooked Tunes, vol. 1: Québec Fiddle Tunes), 1996; No. 11.
Recorded sources : - 30 Below TB 001CD, Les têtes de violon (Bouchard et al) – “Airs Tordus/Crooked Tunes” (1998). Manitour MA002,Manigance - "Nouvelles manigances" (1991).
See also listing at :
Hear "Turlutte acadienne" recorded by Manigance in June, 1991, at Soundcloud [1]
See/Hear the tune played by Madeleine Islands (Iles de Madeleine) fiddler Bertrand Déraspe, who called it "Le Reel du Baobab" [2], from the film Les Souvenacnes de Bertrand Déraspe at approx. 1:20
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