Annotation:Trois corbeaux (Les)
X:1 T:Trois Corbeaux, Les M:C| L:1/8 B:Jean Duval - La Musique de Isidore Soucy 1899-1962 (2017, No. 218, p. 110) [1] D:Bluebird B-4926a (78 RPM), Isidore Soucy (1936) D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECblZ-7-ZE Z:Transcribed by Jean Duval K:Amix ef|eceg a2g2|[M:4/2]dgBg dgBg dgBg e2 ef|[M:C|]eceg a2g2|[M:3/2]dgBg dgBg e2:| ef|:[M:C|]ecAc ecAc|[M:4/2]BBGB dGBG dGGB e2 ef|[M:C|]ecAc ecAc|[M:3/2]BBGB A2 Ac e2 ef:| [M:C|]ecAc ecAc|[M:4/2]BBGB dGBG dGGB e2 ef|[M:C|]ecAc ecAc|BBGB A2||
TROIS CORBEAUX, LES (The Three Crows). French-Canadian, Reel (mixed metre). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBB'. Soucy researcher Jean Duval finds "Les trois corbeaux" to be a version of the Scottish strathspey "Miss Drummond of Perth (1)" (AKA - "Danse écossaise," "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth (1)") and notes that Montreal fiddler Joseph Allard had earlier recorded another version of the tune under the title "Reel écossais (1)" as had Joseph Vermette with "Reel écossais (2)." Interestingly, Duval speculates the 'three crows' title may refer to the articulated 'G' major triad in the second and fourth measures of the first strain.
