Annotation:6/8 à Thomas Giroux
X:1 T:6/8 à Thomas Giroux M:6/8 L:1/8 D:Jean-Marie Verret –"Rend Hommage à Pit Jornoch 1863-1937" (1990) N:Pierre "Pit Jornoch" Verret (1863-1937), Lac St-Charles region D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfFrL4KeELs Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G |:f-|gfe dcB|A3 A2F|D2F A2B|G3 G2A| ~B3 {c}BAB|{B}c2Tc- cBc|A2B {d}cBc|d3 def| gfe dcB|A3 A2F|D2F A2B|G3 G2A| ~B3 {c}BAB|{B}~c3 ece|dcB def|1[B3g3][Bg]z:|2[B3g3][Bg]dc|| |:B2B Bgf|ec[ce] [ce]ag|faf def|{a}gfe ded| B2B Bgf|ec[ce] [ce]ag|faf def|1[B3g3][Bg]dc:|2[B3g3][Bg]z||
6/8 À THOMAS GIROUX. French-Canadian, Jig and Quadrille figure (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "6/8 à Thomas Giroux" is from the Verret family of Lac-Saint-Charles, Quebec, four generations of remarkable musicians. The source for the tune is perhaps 'Pit Jornoch', a nickname for a fiddler and woodcutter named Pierre Verret (no relation), a friend from the next Parish of accordion player Jean-Baptiste Verret (1894-1955), the scion of the musical family. Jean-Marie Verret, who recorded an album of Pit Jornoch's tunes, is Jean-Baptiste's grandson. He recalled:
My father [fiddler Jules Verret] always considered him to be the greatest fiddler he had ever heard in his life. I was told that Pierre Verret learned his repertoire and style from Charlot Parent from Charlesbourg, which is a few kilometers southeast [of Lac St-Charles], and at the time just a village. [1]
A "six-eight" is traditionally the first movement of the six-part quadrille in Québec, although subsequent movement rhythms vary[2].
