X:1
T:Reel de la prosperité
S:Alfred Montmarquette (1871-1944, Montreal, Que.)
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
D:Starr 15829A (78 RPM), Alfred Montmarquette (1931)
F:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13638.mp3
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:E
BA|GEGB e2 BA|GFGA BBBA|GEGB e2 BA|G-FBG E2 BA|
GEGB e2 BA|GGGA BcBA|GEGB e2 BA|"*"G-FBG E2 ||
|:BA|GEB,E GEGE|FGAF BGBA|GEB,E GEGE|FBBG E2BA:|
P:Substitutions:
"*"GBFB E2||
Alfred Montmarquette (1871-1944)REEL DE LA PROSPERITÉ (Prosperity Reel). French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The Great Depression, beginning with the NY Stock Market Crash on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, hit Canada as hard as it did the United States and globally. The unemployment rate was approximately 30 per cent and one in five Canadians depended on government relief for survival. Canada did not emerge from it until the advent of World War II in 1939 which brought increased demands for goods and commerce to support the war effort. Thus Montmarquette's 1931 title "Reel de la prosperité," coming in the depths of the depression, can only be seen as a aspirational statement or as a rather depressed reminder of past economic times. By comparison with the 1930's, the 1920's were seen as the "Prosperity Decade." It is interesting that Montmarquette set his reel in the key of 'E', known as "the people's key".
Additional notes
Source for notated version: -
Printed sources : -
Recorded sources: -Starr 15829A (78 RPM), Alfred Montmarquette (1931).
See also listing at:
Hear Alfred Montmarquette's 1931 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [1]
