Bosco Stomp

Find traditional instrumental music


Bosco Stomp  Click on the tune title to see or modify Bosco Stomp's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Special:Browse/:Bosco Stomp
Query the Archive
Query the Archive
 Theme code Index    35 53 55 31
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Cajun/Creole
 Meter/Rhythm    Two-Step
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    3 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    USA(Deep South)
 Structure    AABBCC
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Deborah Greenblatt
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Cajun Fiddle Book (The)
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 27
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1985
 Artist    Biography:Lawernce Walker
 Title of recording    Cajun Honky Tonk - The Khoury Recordings
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Arhoolie 427
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


BOSCO STOMP. Cajun, Two-Step (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Louisiana. A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Greenblatt): AA(Vocal)BBAABB(Vocal)BBAABBAA (Francois). Bosco is a small community north of Scott, Louisiana, named for one Bosco Prejean who set up a store there. A related song is Doug Kershaw's "Cajun Stripper." Lawrence Walker has recordedan influential version of the tune.

Source for notated version: Lawrence Walker (La.) [Francois].

Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille Chère!), 1990; pp. 346-347. Greenblatt (The Cajun Fiddle Tune Book), 1985; p. 27.

Recorded sources: Arhoolie Records AR-LP5013, Lawrence Walker Arhoolie 427, Lawernce Walker - "Cajun Honky Tonk - The Khoury Recordings." Swing Cat 1612, "Al Berard & Friends."


X:1
T:Bosco Stomp
L:1/8
M:C|
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
S:Suzie Rothfield
K:A
AA|c e2 c e2 cd|efed cB A2|(B/c/B) GF EFGB|efed cA AA|
c e2 c e2 cd|efed cB A2||(B/c/B) GF EFGB|efec a2:|
|:ca|c'aea c'aea|c'a e a3 eg|bgeg bgeg|bg e a3 ea|
c'aea c'aea|c'a e a3 eg|bgeg bgeg|bg e a3:|
|:e(a|a)fec Ace(a|a)fec A2 ef|=g3 e f3 (e|e)c B2 A:||


© 1996-2010 Andrew Kuntz. All Rights Reserved.
Engraver Valerio M. Pelliccioni