Annotation:Jig (119)
X:2 T:Untitled T:Jig [119] S:Grandy Fagnan (1902-1986, Camperville, Manitoba) N:Fagnan sometimes played this jig as the First Change of a Quadrille set. M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig N:AEae tuning (fiddle). N:Grandy varied the part repetitions in the second strain and sometimes played the 9/8 measures N:in the second strain as two 6/8 measures. D:Falcon Productions FP 003, Anne Lederman - "7 Cats" (2000) D:Falcon FP 287, Grandy Fagnan - "Old Native And Métis Fiddling in Manitoba, Vol. 2" (1987) D:https://grandyproject.ca/tunes/ Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A |:{A,}[EA]-||S[A2A2][Be] [c2e2]f|[M:9/8]ecB ABc ECE|[M:6/8][A2A2]B {B}[c2e2](e/f/)|[M:9/8]ecB A3 ((C2[EA]-)| [M:6/8][A2A2])[Be] [c2e2]f|[M:9/8]ecB ABc ECE|[M:6/8][A2A2]B cef|[M:9/8]ecB A3 ((C2[EA]-)| [A2A2])[Be] [c2e2]f|[M:9/8]ecB ABc ECE|[M:6/8][A2A2]B cef|[M:9/8]ecB A3- A3|| [M:6/8][ce]-[e2e2] [ee][ce][ee]|f/-a/- ae- edc|[ce]-[e2e2] ([ee][ce][ee])|[M:9/8][A2a2]c ecB [A3A3]| [M:6/8][ce]-[e2e2] [ee][ce][ee]|Ja2c- edc|[ce]-[e2e2] ([ee][ce][ee])|[M:9/8][A2a2]c ecB [A3A3] | [M:6/8]ce]-[e2e2] [ee][ce][ee]|f/-a/- ae- edc|[ce]-[e2e2] ([ee][ce][Ae])|J[A2a2]c fec| BcB [A3A3]| [ce]-[e2e2] [ee][ce][ee]|Jae2 edc|[ce]-[e2e2] ([ee][ce][ee])|[A2a2]c ecB| [A3A3] (A,C[EA]) ||
JIG [119]. Canadian, Jig (6/8 & 9/8 time). Canada, Manitoba. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AAABB. This untitled jig was in the repertory of Métis fiddler Grandy Fagnan (1902-1986) of Camperdown, Alberta. He was recorded in the field by fiddler and researcher Anne Lederman in the mid-1980's, who noted that Fagnan sometimes played this tune for the first change of a quadrille set, typically a jig in his region. Lederman also categorized it as one of the 'Devil' tunes in his repertory, and, although Fagnan himself did not voice such an association, Lederman notes that fiddle tunes in AEae and AEac# tunings were known in other Metis 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 play those 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.” [1]
