Annotation:Hommage à Alfred Couillard

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 HOMMAGE À ALFRED COUILLARD. French-Canadian, Jig. A Minor ('A' part) & C Major ('B' and 'C' parts). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'CC'A"A"'. Composed by Québec accordion great Philippe Bruneau in honor of influential accordion player Alfred Couillard (Saint-Eugene, Québec). Couillard was influenced by his accordion-playing father, his first teacher, but also by Alfred Montmarquette, Joseph Plante and Théodore Duguay, and he himself had a career of regional playing that lasted some forty years [Bégin, 1993].  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Bégin (Philippe Bruneau), 1993; No. 69, p. 104.  Recorded sources:

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