X:1
T:Hommage a Alfred Couillard
C:Philippe Bruneau
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:Begin - "Philippe Bruneau: Musique traditionnelle pour accordéon diatonique" (1993, p. 104)
K:Amin
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Philippe Bruneau (L) with Alfred Couillard and Armand Labrecque, at Saint-Eugène, Quebec.HOMMAGE À ALFRED COUILLARD. French-Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). A Minor ('A' part) & C Major ('B' and 'C' parts) [Bégin]: B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B & C' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'CC' (Demers): AA'BB'CC'A"A"' (Bégin). Composed by Québec accordion great Philippe Bruneau (1934-2011) in honor of influential accordion player and his friend, Alfred Couillard (1920-1992, Saint-Eugène, originally from Québec), one of more that 150 compositions honoring Québec musicians and dancers. Couillard was influenced by his accordion-playing father, his first teacher, but also by Alfred Montmarquette, Joseph Plante and Théodore Duguay, and he himself had a career of regional playing that lasted some forty years [Bégin, 1993].
Printed sources : - Bégin (Philippe Bruneau), 1993; No. 69, p. 104. Demers (1000 airs du Québec et de l'Amérique francophone), 2020; p. 108.
Recorded sources : - Sabin Jacques & Rachel Aucoin - "Grandes Rencontres" (2018).
See also listing at : Hear/see accordion player Carmen Guérard play the tune at youtube.com [1]
See/hear a clip of Alfred Couillard playing the accordion at youtube.com [2]
