Form: Jig
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ABC:
P:A
ded | "G"b2b "D7"a2a | "G"g2d ded | "D7/F#"c'2c' "G"B'2B' | "D7"a2z ded |
"G"b2b "D7"a2a | "G"g2d ded | "C6"e2a "D7"def | "G"g2z ded |
"D"F2F "G"G2G | "Ddim"^G2-"D"A "d".D"e".E"d".D | "c".C"d".D"c".C "b".B,"c".C"b".B, | "D7"A,2z ded |
"G"b2b "D7"a2a | "Em"g2g "C"gfe | "G/D"d2B "D7"c2F | "G"G2z BcB||
P:B
"Em/B"e2eg2g | "B7"f2B BcB | "Em/B"e^de gfe |"B7" f3 B{d}cB |
"Em"g2g "B7"f2f | "C"e2e "F/A"=f2f | "Em/B"e2e "B7"^d2 d |[1"Em"e2 z :|[2 "Em"e2z z3 |]
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Source: Olivier Métra (1856)
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Region: France
*Notes: Jean Rhéaume contributed this tune as the 19th century original from which LaChaîne des Dames was adapted inQuébec. He writes,
The version [of Chaine des Dames] you have from Pascal is a «learned from oral tradition» very transformed version.It is the first movement from the «Quadrille des Lanciers» (The Lancers).The dance form « Quadrille » has been created in Dublin in 1818 by a french master dancer, M. Duval.This is the ancestor of the « contradance» , the « Irish set dancing», The “American quadrille” and the Québécois «Set carré”.It has been imported [was created?] in France by Olivier Métra who created the well-known music «The Lancers» .Here [above] is this first movement «Les tirroirs» but also called «Les Dames» (which became La chaîne des dames).