X:2
T:Untitled
T:Reel [194]
N:AEae Reel #1 on the Grandy Project site.
S:Grandy Fagnan (1902-1986, Camperville, Manitoba)
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:AEae tuning (fiddle).
N:Play AABBB
N:There's several ways to bar this tune. Below is what made sense to me.
D:https://grandyproject.ca/tunes/
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:A
|:[M:2/4]A,2 EG|[M:6/4] A2 Bc BAcA ECEG |[M:C|]A2 ef ecBG |ABcA ECEG|
[M:6/4]A2 Bc BAcA ECEG |[M:C|]A2ef ecBG |[M:2/4][A,4A4] :|
|:[M:C|]J[e3e3]f ec e2|faec e(cBA)|J[e3e3]f ec e2|faec ecBG- |[M:2/4]A4:|
REEL [194]. Canadian, Reel (mixed meter). Canada, Manitoba. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AABBB. This untitled reel was in the repertory of Métis fiddler Grandy Fagnan (c. 1902-1986) of Camperville, Manitoba, who recorded it for researcher Anne Lederman in the mid-1980's. In many Métis communities playing in scordatura was associated with the Devil. Although Fagnan himself did not voice such an association, researcher Anne Lederman notes that fiddle tunes in AEae and AEac# tunings were known in other Métis communities to have that association. She writes:
Laurence Flett of [the Métis community of] Ebb and Flow says his grandfather used to tell him “Don’t playthose things. . . If you ever play them, he said, the devil will walk in and take the fiddle off you,and maybe you’ll never, ever play a tune again.”
Additional notes
See also listing at : Hear Anne Lederman's field recording of Grandy playing the tune at her site The Grandy Project [:https://grandyproject.ca/tunes/]. On the site it can be found as "A Reel #1".
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