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Annotation:Râteau Vieux (Le)
X:1 T:Râteau Vieux, Le M:2/4 L:1/8 B:J.A. Boucher – “Le Repertoire du Violoneux” (1933, No. 22, p. 14) B:“Le Repertoire du Violoneux” (Nouvelle édition 2018 par Jean Duval) [1] K:A ag/f/ ed|cd e2|ag/f/ ed|cB/c/ BA|ag/f/ ed|cd e2|B/c/B Ad|1 ef ga:|2 ef g|| K:D |:A|df df|df g/f/e/d/|ce ce|ce a/g/f/e/|df df|df a2|g/f/e/d/ c/A/B/c/ |d3:|
RÂTEAU VIEUX, LE (The Old Rake). AKA and see "Rakes of Mallow (The)." French-Canadian, Reel (2/4 time). A Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Le râteau vieux" (The Old Rake) is J.A. Boucher's version of the venerable Irish reel "Rakes of Mallow (The)", however, as researcher Jean Duval notes, Boucher's title is a mistranslation of the English name for the tune. Duval finds a somewhat more faithful title translation in Boucher's 1927 unpublished collection, a precursor to his 1933 printed publication, where it is given as "Rake of Mellon." Boucher assigns each of the familiar strains to a different key; unusual, in that the tune is generally played in the same key.
