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GROWLING OLD MAN AND (GRUMBLING OLD) WOMAN, THE. AKA – "Old Man and the Old Woman (2)," "Growling Old Man and Cackling Old Woman," "Marmotteuse (La)." AKA and see "Chicaneuse (La)," "Disputant (The)," "Disputeuse (La)," "Grondeuse à Hédard Bulger." French Canadian (originally), New England; Reel. A Dorian ('A' part) & A Mixolydian ('B' part): A Mixolydian (Phillips). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (most versions): AA'BB' (Perlman). "Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman (The)" is a Québec reel popularized by Maritime radio and TV fiddler Don Messer under that title. However, it is only one representative of a sub-genre of Quebec 'raised bass' fiddle tunes that go by other titles, all characterized by 'growly' low parts (facilitated by cross-tuning and playing drones) and contrasting high strains, often meant to be representative of a couple having an argument or a single person (most often female) 'grumbling' or otherwise making (her) displeasure known. Messer's version was taken up by "revival" fiddlers in the early 1970's and became a staple of New England contra dance repertoire, and it has since become widely disseminated. See Isidore Soucy's 'crooked' (irregularly metered) version, "Disputeuse (La)"<div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="/w/images/lilypond/0/o/0o5ei6t66gwvqh6eyx4ycndwo1upeyh/0o5ei6t6.midi"><img src="/w/images/lilypond/0/o/0o5ei6t66gwvqh6eyx4ycndwo1upeyh/0o5ei6t6.png" width="697" height="89" alt=" X:2 T:Disputeuse, La M:2/4 L:1/8 K:D A,A,^C[A,E] A,A,C[A,E] |[M:3/2]G,2B,G, DG,B,G, D[B,D]G,B,|[M:C|]A,B,=CD E2 DC|B,A,G,B, | "></div> . See also "Highlander's Farewell (4)"<div class="cdx-message cdx-message--block cdx-message--error mw-ext-score-error"><span class="cdx-message__icon"></span><div class="cdx-message__content"><p>Unable to convert ABC file to LilyPond format:</p><pre lang="en" dir="ltr">+ /usr/bin/abc2ly -s -o file.ly file.abc/usr/bin/abc2ly from LilyPond 2.20.0Parsing `file.abc'...Line ... file.abc: 7: Huh? Don't understand</pre></div></div> , from the playing of Virginia fiddler Emmett Lundy, a tune much in the same character as "Growling Old Man," and perhaps in some way related.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 128. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 75, p. 51. Fiddler Magazine, vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1966; p. 8. Fiddler Magaziner, vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2016; p. 30 Hinds/Hébert (Grumbling Old Woman), 1981; p. 17. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddler's Repertoire), 1983; No. 148. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 87 (appears as "La Marmotteuse"). Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 107. Silberberg (Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 57. Susan Songer with Clyde Curley (Portland Collection vol. 3), 2015; p. 128 (as "La Marmotteuse"). Spadaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 33. Welling (Welling's Hartford Tunebook), 1976; p. 8.

Recorded sources : - Adelphi AD2004, Delaware Water Gap – "String Band Music." Apex 26322-B (78 RPM), Don Messer (1950). Bee Balm 302, "The Corndrinkers." Biograph 6008, Ebenezer – "Fox Hollow String Band Festival." CHCDC045, Donna Hébert – "Chanterelle, French in America." County 725, The Riendeau Family – "Old-Time Fiddling." Field Recorders Collective FTC 206, "Simon St. Pierre: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music" (2015). Fretless 200A, Yankee Ingenuity – "Kitchen Junket" (1977). Heritage XXXIII, The Correct Tone String Band – "Visits" (1981). Philo 2000, "Louis Beaudoin" (1973, as "Growling Old Man and the Cackling Old Woman," heard on a Don Messer radio show in the 1950's). Rounder 7008, "Jerry Holland" (appears as "The Old Man and the Old Woman"). Smithsonian Folkways Records SFW 40116, "Mademoiselle, voulez-vous danser?" (1999. Ron West. Various artists).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]
Hear Don Messer's recording on youtube.com [3] [4]

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