Annotation:Garçon Volage Quadrille (2)
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GARÇON VOLAGE [2] (The Fickle Fellow). AKA - "Favourite Flirtation (A)." AKA and see "Sally Sloane's," "Trip to Cottingham," "Village Boy Quadrille (The)." AKA - "Garcon Volange." English (originally), Scottish, Canadian; Jig and Quadrille part. Canada, Cape Breton. F Major (Ford): G Major (Cranford, Kerr, Lees, Manson). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Ford, Lees): AA'BBCAA' (Kerr): AA'BB'CC' (Cranford): ABACA (Manson). "Garçon Volage [2]" is a dance melody that has wide currency in Britain and North America. Actually, "Le Garçon Volage" is the name of a dance figure in a quadrille set and several melodies were variously employed as the vehicle for the dance; as a result, the name of the figure is sometimes attached to the tune. For example, "Garçon Volage Quadrille (2)" has no musical relation to "Garçon Volage Quadrille (1) (La)" as given in the Hardy family manuscripts. The melody can be found in the c. 1800-1850 Browne Family music manuscripts, from north east England's Lake District, and it appears again in the same manuscripts under the titles "Trip to Cottingham" and "Village Boy Quadrille (The)." The tune was also entered as an untitled quadrille in the 1844 music manuscript collection of County Longford musician Thomas Kernan (No. 86).
A precursor version of this tune family is to be found as "Nouvelle Fantasie (Le)" in an 18th century volume entitled The Minstrel Vol 1 a selection of the most admired National Airs, published by John Simpson "at his Flute & Flageolet Manufactory, 260, Regent St. near Oxford St." in London.
Paul Cranford (1997) opines "Garçon Volage" is a good tune for double fiddling (melody and octave melody), and notes that Cape Breton fiddlers Angus and Archie Neil Chisholm often played it together.
See note for "Trip to Cottingham" for more information.
