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Annotation:Reel du Faubourg (2)
X:1 T:Reel du Faubourg [2] T:Reel à deux T:Reel du printemps, T:Reel des éboulements, N:From the playing of Joseph Allard (1873-1947, Montreal, Quebec) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Fast" D:Bluebird B-1103 (78 RPM), Joseph Allard (1937) D:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/14580.mp3 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A (3efg|:a2 AA cAec|Bcde {g}fefg|a/a/a AA cAec| fBgB aaeg| a2 AA cAec|Bcde {g}fefg|afge fdec|1dfed cAeg:|2dfed cAed|| |:cAEB Acec|Bcde f2 ed|cAEB Acec|dfec dB2d| cAEB Acec|Bcde {g}fefg|afge fdec|1dfed cAed:|2dfed cAeg||
REEL DU FAUBOURG [2]. AKA and see "Charlevoix Reel," "Dad's Reel," "Presto (2)," "Reel à deux," "Reel du printemps," "Reel des éboulements." French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Allard recorded this piece twice, first under the title "Reel à deux" (1930), and again in 1937 as "Reel du Faubourg." Most musicians playing Quebecois music today know it as ""Reel des éboulements," after Jos Bouchard's masterful recording of the reel. By whatever name, Allard researcher Jean Duval finds the piece to be derivative of Scottish fiddler-composer Robert Mackintosh's reel "Sheep Shanks," and, indeed, Allard's original title ("Reel à deux") refers to an old Scottish dance, in which each of two partners in the dance describes a figure eight[1]
- ↑ Jean Duval, La Musique de Joseph Allard 1873-1947, 2018, p. 73.
