A new tune each Wednesday (more or less) chosen arbitrarily by your Webmaster, a mixture of traditional and new (but traditional in style) tunes. Site visitors are encouraged to nominate tunes for this page via the Suggestion Form.
This week’s tune:
Reel des Accordéonistes, another wonderful Québécois reel in three parts with a nice bit of syncopation in the third part.
Last week’s tune:
Gigue de Salon, an actual 6/8 jig (not all Québécois “gigues” are 6/8) by Pascal Gemme. In English, “Living Room Jig”.
Recent Tunes of the Week:
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- Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine, a traditional march or reel with possible African American roots.
- Corie, a beautiful slow air written by David Kaynor for Corie Pressley. Don’t miss the video of David playing this tune with Corie and Katie Pressley and several other great musicians.
- Waynesboro, Originally an Irish tune (march?), Over the Moor to Maggie, it included a third part not usually played with this old-time version.
- The Wise Maid, a very popular traditional Irish reel.
- Lévis Beaulieu, a popular Quebecois reel which has since become a contra-dance favorite.
- Blind Mary, By Turlough O’Carolan, a blind harper in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, considered one of Ireland’s greatest composers in any genre. Blind Mary is thought to have been another blind harper.
- Misty Morning And now for something completely different, a full-on Bluegrass tune by Doyle Lawson in E minor, lyrical and a touch complex.
- You Married My Daughter But You Didn’t (Tout d’un Coup). This quintessentially Quebecois reel is fun to play. (Hint: The “you” in the title refers to the priest.)
- Efraim. The full name of this tune is Merenkulkijq Efraim Anderssonin Hambo. This rathe hypnotic tune is from Finland.
- The King’s Wedding March (Leksands Brüdmarsh): Thought to have been composed by several musicians for the wedding of a nineteenth century Swedish King but generally considered traditional. Guitar players, check out the idea in the Notes section.
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