Annotation:Joyous Waltz

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 JOYOUS WALTZ. AKA - "Valse Joyeuse (La)." French-Canadian, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BCD. Composed by Wellie or Willy Ringuette, a fiddler and composer who was born in Franklin, New Hampshire in 1898, and died in Trois-Rivières, Quèbec in 1969. Ringuette recorded his waltz for both the Columbia and Starr lables in the 1930's.   Source for notated version: Jean Carignan (Montreal, Canada) [Brody].  Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pp. 151-152.  Recorded sources: Green Linnet GLCD 1079, Buttons and Bows - "First Month of Summer" (1987). Philo 2001, "Jean Carignan" (1974). Voyager 320-S, Frank Ferrel- "Fiddle Tunes" (1977).  See also listing at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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