CLOG DE PARISEAU. AKA - "Hommage à Montmarquette." French-Canadian, Clog or Reel (4/4 time). F Sharp Minor ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was recorded on 78 RPM in 1928 by Montréal accordion great Alfred Montmarquette (1871-1944) accompanied by Adélard St-Jean (1890-1964). The tune was named in honor of Montmarquette's fellow accordionist and long-time friend, Louis-Philippe Pariseau.
Alfred Montmarquette
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Raynald Ouellet, of the group Éritage [Hart & Sandell].
Printed sources : - Hart & Sandell (Dance ce Soir), 2001; No. 63, p. 96. Songer (The Portland Collection, vol. 3), 2015; p. 51.
Recorded sources : - Gabriel Labbé et al - "Hommage à Montmarquette" (1995). Fogarty's Cove Records, Éritage - "La ronde des voyageurs" (1982). NKM Records, Liam Robinson Dance Band - "So Merrily Danced" (2014). Starr 15462 (78 RPM), Alfred Montmarquette (1928). Transit TRCD-9501, Gabriel Labbé, Benoît Bourque, Mario Loiselle, Sabin Jacques, Richard Forest - "Hommage à Alfred Montmarquette 1871-1944" (1995). April Verch - "Fiddelicious" (1998). Wild Asparagus WA 003, Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads" (1990). Tidal Wave - "Tidal Wave: Conta Music of Quebec."
See also listing at : Hear Montmarquette's 1928 recording at the Virtual Gramaphone [1]
See/hear the tune played on youtube.com [2]
Hear fiddler Laurie Hart play the tune [3]
See the entry at Eric Lortie's Identitairs Québécois site [4]
