Annotation:Vieille Gigue Charlesbourg
X:1 T:Vieille Gigue Charlesbourg S:Pit Jornoch/Pierre Verret (1863-1937) M:C| L:1/8 N:"Quick" N:Play with lots of bounce. D:Jean-Marie Verret –"Rend Hommage à Pit Jornoch 1863-1937" (1990) D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfFrL4KeELs Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C G2cc A2fd|B2 {ga}gf e~c3|Gccc Addd|Bage c2{d}(c/B/A)| Gccc A2 fd|Bg{b}ag e~c3|Gccc Addd|1Bage c2 {d}cA:|2Bage c3d|| |:efgb a2gf|ecdc BGGd|eggb a2ge|1-3fdBG (c/d/c/B/) cd:|4fdBG c3A||
VIEILLE GIGUE CHARLESBOURG (Old Charlesbourg Gigue). French-Canadian, Quadrille (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Vieille Gigue Charlesbourg" is from the Verret family of Lac-Saint-Charles, Québec, four generations of remarkable musicians. The source for the tune is perhaps 'Pit Jornoch', a nickname for a fiddler and woodcutter named Pierre Verret (no relation), a friend from the next Parish of accordion player Jean-Baptiste Verret (1894-1955), the scion of the musical family. Jean-Marie Verret, who recorded an album of Pit Jornoch's tunes, is Jean-Baptiste's grandson. He recalled:
My father [fiddler Jules Verret] always considered him to be the greatest fiddler he had ever heard in his life. I was told that Pierre Verret learned his repertoire and style from Charlot Parent from Charlesbourg, which is a few kilometers southeast [of Lac St-Charles], and at the time just a village.[1]
Charlesbourg is a borough of Québec City, located in the northeast part of city.
