Daniel boucher is a dynamic young fiddler born and raised in the french canadian community in bristol, ct. Thanks to fiddling friend kathy selby for bringing this tune to my attention. Reel beatrice french canadian fiddle harmony sheet music by celtic fiddle. Irish tunes have been assimilated widely into both the english and french. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 traditional fiddle tunes from old. Devon s playing the fiddle tuned adae and dejahs playing guitar tuned dadgad.
Tune collections on the internet mickey koth, fiddler, music librarian. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by john lamancusa. Jean carignan french canadian fiddle songs 1975, vinyl. Emile benoit was born in 19 and was the preeminent dance musician of his generation on the portauport peninsula. Reel beatrice french canadian fiddle harmony sheet music. Founded in 1957, the old town school of folk music provides a wide range of music, dance. The current version of this tunebook, in abc and in pdf forms, is downloadable for free from pauls web site at. Tune collections on the internet these are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif andor in abc notation. Since id admitted i didnt know many canadian fiddle tunes they sent me a few. Click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys piano keys. Words written to this tune by poet robert tannahill tell of a young man longing for his love and feeling sad despite the beauty of spring that surrounds him.
Posted in quebecoiscanadien francais french canadian, tagged canadien francais, fiddle, fiddle tune, fiddle tunes, french canadian, french canadian fiddle tune, french canadian fiddle tunes, musique trad, musique traditionnelle, quebec, quebecois, trad, violoneux on january 14, 2010 leave a comment. Founded in 1957, the old town school of folk music provides a wide range of music, dance, theater, and visual arts courses to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. Julia plumbs excellent and free instructional videos for new england and canadian tunes. The volume includes notes on the tunes, and a cd recording of all pieces. This wonderful frenchcanadian tune is super enjoyable to play, either as the melody or accompaniment. A collection of 227 traditional fiddle tunes from france, compiled by chris haigh, published by schott. German and french translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the.
It is in the key of am, and has three equal parts, meaning that the parts are all the number of measures long, in this case, 8 measures each. These are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif. Canadian fiddle is the aggregate body of tunes, styles and musicians engaging the traditional. Its a great fiddle tune, plays well on mandolin, harder on banjo, and murder on flute. This influence lives on today, especially in the pacific northwest, where contra dance bands still favor french canadian tunes and rhythms and master fiddlers are brought from quebecc to port townsend every year for the festival of american fiddle tunes. Antoine traditional quebecois a piano keys youtube logo.