Talk:Évite Gabriel
Tune properties and standard notation
ÉVITE GABRIEL. French-Canadian, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by hurdy gurdy and accordion player Daniel Thonon (St. Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec) in honor of his youngest son, Gabriel. He told Susan Songer (Portland Collection) that the tune was written in the hospital waiting room while he was awaiting news of the delivery (it is said that the title, depending on the dialect of French used, can mean "Hurry Up, Gabriel" or "Avoiding Gabriel"). Thonon is a Belgian/Breton expatriate who grew up in Québec and who played music in Algiers for some years.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 74.
Recorded sources: Advielle Que Pourra - "Come What May." Great Meadow Music GMM 2002, Rodney Miller & David Surette - "New Leaf" (2000).