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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2011, 02:58:50 AM »

Hey Anahata,
That was really really well played and a great tune

Well done!

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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2011, 08:47:25 AM »

Great submissions so far everyone. I am going to contribute to this, just as soon as my exams are over and I can think a bit. I've also got the problem that at the moment I can't play music in my room after 7, which is a pain because I'm revising until 6 and then need to have dinner in hall. So I don't often get the chance :( After next weekend though I'll start booking out the music room of the college over the road and do some decent efforts at recording.
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2011, 11:01:37 AM »

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http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=51595

That is a lovely waltz, and very nicely played, Ollie.  It's a really catchy initial tune, which then goes in very interesting directions, and you've put in some wonderful ornamentation.  I particularly liked the (major 6th?) chord at the end, it fits beautifully.

Do you know what a 'berceuse' is, a rocking chair, or a cradle, or something?
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2011, 11:08:49 AM »

I also loved this strathspey, Anahata.  It does sound particularly like a Scottish piano, somehow!
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2011, 11:45:33 AM »

I also loved this strathspey, Anahata.  It does sound particularly like a Scottish piano, somehow!

I always thought 'Sweetness of Mary' was a Scottish tune..I think I have it on a Rod Straddling CD
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2011, 11:57:34 AM »

I always thought 'Sweetness of Mary' was a Scottish tune.

It seems Joan Macdonald Boes was born in Inverness and moved to Michigan early in life. Quite why the Cape Breton people have claimed her I'm not sure, except that it does have a tradition of that sort  of piano playing.

Likewise St Anne's Reel has been mentioned as a typically Canadian tune, but I've always knows it as Irish. National boundaries are porous to music...

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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2011, 12:20:06 PM »

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http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=51595

That is a lovely waltz, and very nicely played, Ollie.  It's a really catchy initial tune, which then goes in very interesting directions, and you've put in some wonderful ornamentation.  I particularly liked the (major 6th?) chord at the end, it fits beautifully.

Do you know what a 'berceuse' is, a rocking chair, or a cradle, or something?

Thanks, Chris.  (:) I think it's a major 7th, I use it quite a lot. In laymen's terms, it's just a Bm chord in the right hand with a G bass and chord in the left.

My French isn't good enough, but Chrome translates it as 'lullaby'.

Here's the ABC (in D; I play it in Eb, which would be G fingering on a D/G)

X:27
T:Berceuse pour Hannah
C:Richard Forêt
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:D
DE |: F>ED | GFE | A3 | F2D | d3 | c2B | A3 | FGA | B>AG | c>BA |
dcd | ed>B | A>FD |1 E>DE | F>ED | (3E/F/E/ DE :|2 E>FE | D3-D3/2 z/c/d/ |:
ecA | E3/2 z/B/c/ | dBG | E3/2 z/A/B/ | caf | (3g/a/g/ ed | e3- | e3/2 z/c/d/ | e (3c/d/c/ A |
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2011, 12:22:16 PM »

Cape Breton has a strong Scots Gaelic Culture dating back to early settlers. A tradition of Scottish step dancing was all but forgotten about here and has been surviving there and is now being re-introduced in Scotland.

I believe JMB was originally from Inverness County in Cape Breton and not Inverness-shire here in Scotland.
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2011, 12:26:08 PM »

I believe JMB was originally from Inverness County in Cape Breton and not Inverness-shire here in Scotland.

Aha - flash of enlightenment  (:) Thanks!
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #29 on: May 08, 2011, 12:53:52 PM »

Here's The Sweetness of Mary usually thought of as a Cape Breton Tune, written by pianist Joan MacDonald Boes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgY7x75hRic

I like playing it in D because the melodeon sounds good at that low pitch. It's usually done in G or A.


One of those moments when I thought that is just so beautiful I must learn it. And beautifully played too, Anahata - thank you.
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2011, 01:26:35 PM »

Great submissions so far everyone. I am going to contribute to this, just as soon as my exams are over and I can think a bit. I've also got the problem that at the moment I can't play music in my room after 7, which is a pain because I'm revising until 6 and then need to have dinner in hall. So I don't often get the chance :( After next weekend though I'll start booking out the music room of the college over the road and do some decent efforts at recording.
I'm in the same boat. Working on some Ad Vielle que Pourra. Final paper for semester due tomorrow.
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #31 on: May 08, 2011, 02:56:12 PM »

Likewise St Anne's Reel has been mentioned as a typically Canadian tune, but I've always knows it as Irish. National boundaries are porous to music...

I always thought it was Irish too, until I moved here. I haven't read what others have to say about it but its name is a bit of a giveaway. The St Anne in "Le reel de Ste-Anne" is almost certainly a placename, and if you've ever driven through rural Québec you'll know that every second village is named after a saint.* Melodically it also resembles other québécois tunes, Le reel de Sherbrooke, for example.

OK, just looked it up: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/ST..htm

Another well-known Irish tune, The Traveller, is also I think Fr. Canadian, the name being a corruption of "Reel du travailleur."

* My favourite at the moment: St-Pierre-de-Véronne-à-Pike-River. Although there is St-Louis-du-Ha-ha !
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #32 on: May 08, 2011, 07:16:33 PM »

Another is this wonderful jig played by Alan Bouchard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOef8pOVLO0&feature=related. Anyone know what it is called?

Its called "Partie du Lancier" or "The bridal festival quadrille"
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #33 on: May 08, 2011, 07:43:09 PM »

If you ever wonder where to learn all those wonderful québécois tune, you can go at http://www.mustrad.udenap.org/

Loooots of music!

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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2011, 07:48:20 PM »

Is "Maison de glace" French-Canadian or simply French?


It's French-canadian.  It was composed by Réjean Brunet.  You can watch the composer with is brother here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azNFtnW0dXQ
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2011, 09:33:21 PM »

Another is this wonderful jig played by Alan Bouchard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOef8pOVLO0&feature=related. Anyone know what it is called?

Its called "Partie du Lancier" or "The bridal festival quadrille"

Great. Thank you.
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #36 on: May 09, 2011, 12:49:22 AM »

Another geographical theme this month folks, and this time it's tunes from Canada!

A very broad theme, covering and not limited to, music from Quebec, Newfoundland, and many many songwriters - Joni Mitchell, Stan Rogers, the McGarrigles, etc. A lot of possibilities, so let's see what you come up with!

Cheers,

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For Quebec (I cant see posted so far) I would love our Quebecois to give us their rendition of  Gens du Pays on melodeon.  (Copies of the dots were handed out at The George a few months back).
Trying to find them -they may be in TB's DUB! The chorus is easy, the verses are quite tricky.
Ahh - found here as an attachment from Steve Jones last Year
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,4976.msg64064.html#msg64064

Great, moving tune and. for a start, with the words, here:
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with words separate in info section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIJrW_auCE

background to Quebec's most popular modern folk song and of course the official unofficial national Quebecois anthem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gens_du_pays
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #37 on: May 09, 2011, 01:57:12 PM »

Another is this wonderful jig played by Alan Bouchard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOef8pOVLO0&feature=related. Anyone know what it is called?

Its called "Partie du Lancier" or "The bridal festival quadrille"

And the player is André Bouchard.

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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #38 on: May 09, 2011, 08:51:50 PM »

Knowing very little about Canadian tunes, I did an ABC search and came up with Lemonville, which we play in our band. I didn't realise it originated in Canada and only really knew the guitar chords for it which I usually play. So then I narrowed my search to jigs and came up with Gigue du Forgeron, Quebecois jig. It took me ages to get my fingers round the section in the B part of Forgeron which has the G# in it. It also made me realise that I need to work a lot harder on playing jigs in general as I struggled to get the pair of them anywhere near posting level. Anyhow, I finally took a deep breath and struggled through them - here they are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnbcwXJg_DY
BTW - that's Mollie the collie's ears you can see at the bottom right of the vid - I think she's going a bit deaf which is why she's not got her paws stuffed in them! ;D
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Re: Theme of the Month for May 2011: Tunes from Canada
« Reply #39 on: May 10, 2011, 01:39:52 PM »

It occurs to me that Mary and I often play a set of jigs of which the first is topical if not Canadian, and the second is Cape Breton
So just for fun, here they are on an MP3 of the first track of English Rebellion's album "Four Across"
The Merry Month and The Squirrel Up a Tree

Mary Barber - fiddle, Nick Barber - horn, Mary Humphreys - piano, Anahata - melodeon :  English Rebellion web site for more info.

Credit where due: The Merry Month was written by John Sommerville, a Scots fiddler who is a resident at Maidenhead Folk Club.
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