Annotation:Reel boule de neige (2)

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X:1 T:Reel boule de neige [2] T:Snowball Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:from the playing of Isidore Soucy (1899-1963, Montreal, Québec) D:Starr 15518A (78 RPM), Isidore Soucy (c. 1928) F:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/15964.mp3 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A |:[E2A2]|AcBA c2cB|[M:3/2]Aaga ffee e2A2|[M:C|]AcBA c2 BA|[M:3/2]EBGB EBGB A2E2| [M:C|] AcBA c2cB|Aaga ffee|eagf eagf|edcB A2aa A2:| |:E2|ABcd e2cA|Bcde f2 ed|cdeg a2gf|eagf edcB|\ |1[M:3/2]Aaga fdBGA2:|2 [M:C|]A2a2 A2||



REEL BOULE DE NEIGE [2] (Snowball Reel). AKA and see "Gigue du poteau blanc," "Poteau blanc (Le)," "White Post (The)." French-Canadian, Reel (cut and 3/2 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Montreal fiddler Joseph Allard recorded the tune in September, 1928, as "Gigue du poteau blanc" (White Post Jig), the same month that Soucy recorded his version, "Boule de beige [2]." Soucy researcher Jean Duval thinks that Soucy was unaware of Allard's recorded and came to it independently. He points out Soucy's version "is almost perfectly pentametric"[1].


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Jean Duval (La Musique de Isidore Soucy 1899-1962), 2017; No. 87, p. 48.

Recorded sources : - Starr 15518A (78 RPM), Isidore Soucy (c. 1928)

See also listing at :
Hear Isidore Soucy's 1928 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [1] and at youtube.com [2]
Hear Joseph Allard's version as "Gigue du poteau blanc" at youtube.com [3]



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  1. Jean Duval, La Musique de Isidore Soucy 1899-1962, 2017, p. 205.