Annotation:Hommage à Edmond Parizeau

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 HOMMAGE À EDMOND PARIZEAU. AKA and see "Reel du Commonwealth." French-Canadian, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC'. A tune sometimes attributed to accordion player Marcel Messervier, who arranged and popularized it after an air recorded in 1953 by Edmond Parizeau (sometimes given as Pariseau or Pariso), who called it "Reel du Commonwealth". Parizeau recorded "Dance du Procureur"/"Reel du Commonwealth" on a 78 RPM recording, Bluebird 55-5488, a label for whom he made a number of recordings.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 100.  Recorded sources: Great Meadow Music GMM 2003, "Rodney Miller's Airdance" (2000). Rounder CD 6041, La Bottine Souriante - "Je Voudrais Changer d'Chapeau" (1990).

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