The styles of fiddling that i teach reflect the styles of fiddle that i most enjoy to play. These are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif and or in abc notation. This is a fingerstyle guitar arrangement in standard tuning. However, this version, named sweet john browns march. So i had these three worlds, all coming in different ways the old time from this lucky accident of. French fiddle tunes by various and traditional edition. Old time fiddle tunes penn state mechanical engineering. Compendium of fiddle stylesquebec fiddle wikibooks. The tunes are also available from bernies irish site. Old time tunes are grouped by key rather than alphabetically. Tune collections on the internet these are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif andor in abc notation. Identitairs quebecois, a website which includes references and recordings of 439 tunes from the traditional quebecois repertoire look under repertoire. Most are new england or canadian french and english.
An elegant waltz, as played by one of the true queens of the canadian fiddle, eleanor. The book opens with a description of a little of the history and background to each of the four main canadian fiddle styles. Old time fiddle tunes, transcriptions and audio files of over 550 fiddle tunes from old recordings. Also check out youtube for videos from the annual pembroke, ontario, fiddle contest. This download is for the sheet music pdf and one audio track, plus practise mixes of the harmony parts. Archived files can be found at the bottom of the page. Traditional frenchcanadian dance music on the session. Recorded in 1960, this collection of oldtime frenchcanadian, irish, and scottish fiddle tunes is a wonderful example of jean carignans skill on the instrument. Challenges encountered putting together a book of canadian. Nordic dancers nw, sheet music for many scandinavian tunes. In converting to abc format, i left out all the slurs.
Frenchcanadian fiddle tunes contributor names king, edward, 19081988 performer lomax, alan, 19152002 collector created published baraga, michigan, october, 1938 subject headings. Canadian fiddle is the opus or aggregate body of tunes, styles and musicians engaging the traditional folk music of canada on the fiddle. Woodchoppers reel french canadian sheet music for violin. Useful links for quebecois music and dance lisa ornstein. Click on the print icon in the pop up menu that appears.
Canadian fiddle is the aggregate body of tunes, styles and musicians engaging the traditional folk music of canada on the fiddle. One of the stated aims of the book is to explain how to create variations of the tunes. Quebecois, collects a number of his 78rpm recordings in a digital format. This is a collection of oldtime fiddle tunes most of them from appalachia in pdf format. Reel beatrice french canadian fiddle harmony sheet music. Click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys to hear a synthesized midi file, or for a recording. German and french translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the. The volume includes notes on the tunes, and a cd recording of all pieces. Todays tune is a another frenchcanadian tune called the indian. In fact, this predilection for crooked dance tunes was a musical trait that frenchcanadians passed to other musical styles they encountered and had influence over. Whatever ones interest, the old town school provides broad access to more than 700 accredited class offerings, private lessons, and workshops that span an array of artistic genres. Jam sessions fiddle sheet music, free download, all.
Irish washer woman irish jig, with piano accompaniment lines, one of the few irish tunes universally recognized by the green beer irish at any time of the day or night on march 17. A tune a day for one hundred days an experiment in musical cognitionor had to learn enough tunes to play with just about everyone. The sheet music of the prairie mountain fiddlers is available through dropbox. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by john lamancusa. The book contains the complete printed music notation, while the free audio files feature split channel recording fiddle lead in right channel, rhythm accompaniment in left, recorded by the master fiddler himself, a five time undefeated world fiddle champion. Attention is given to the ornaments and melody on an equal basis. Grangers fiddle tunes for guitar flatpicking guitar network. It is in their forms and structures that native plains. Departing from the usual structure of most angloceltic tunes, sometimes radically, frenchcanadian tunes are often seen as crooked by other traditions standards. Tune collections on the internet mickey koth, fiddler, music librarian. I learned this jaunty tune for the new york state old time fiddlers associations fiddle queens of new york state concerts in osceola, n.
The others are tunes ive learned and liked from a variety of sources. This is by no means an exact replication of the tunes as played by the musicians, but rather a teaching aide for learning the tunes. Index of sets by number, pdf format index of tunes by title, pdf format pdf files for standard sets. His family lived in quebec when he was quite young. The tabledit file requires requires the tabledit program or tabledit viewer. The way of the fiddle one fiddlers collection of oldtime tunes. Louis was in his early fifties and lived about a mile from me, so id walk there after dinner and play tunes. In this portion of the nh country dance web site i present a sizable collection of fiddle tunes. A performance for the aboriginal arts centre with russell peters on guitar. You will receive the score in pdf form, and a midi file, as.
Founded in 1957, the old town school of folk music provides a wide range of music, dance, theater, and visual arts courses to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. Hand me doon da fiddle by tom anderson and pam swing. It is an integral extension of the angloceltic and quebecois french folk music tradition but has distinct features found only in the western hemisphere styles listed in the canadian encyclopeia are scottish, cape breton, ukrainiancanadian, frenchcanadian. However, it just might have been composed for an english ballad opera. Although i would estimate that the canadian setting of saint annes reel has about 1020 percent less notes than what you would hear from an irish session player. Celtic tunes are listed alphabetically by category i.
What makes this tune so fun to play is that it begins in the key of g, and then switches to the key of c for the b part. Fiddle and accordion music of quebec is a collection of 122 traditional and composed tunes by a wide variety of quebecois players and composers, the broadest and most informative collection of quebecois repertoire available to date. Old time fiddle website covers a variety of topics related to traditional music and. The emphasis is on instrumental folk music specifically, contra dance tunes, although some links also include other types of folk music or classical music. Download the file and use acrobat reader to print the pages you want. Tunes are presented in abc format and as standard notation in pdf format. Many of the tunes are from the lamprey river band tunebook.
The fiddle park is jammed with players for a week and there are lots of frenchcanadians there from nearby quebec on the videos. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 traditional fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by john lamancusa click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys to hear a synthesized midi file, or for a recording. As is the case for many canadian musical traditions, the fiddle is the most commonly. Oldtime fiddle music from the gaspe coast, a marvelous blog. Traditional frenchcanadian instrumental dance tunes, 16th. The chatagee reel french canadian tune with music notation and flatpicking guitar tablature. Dave gabol, john walsh, and others have compiled a collection of 54 of paddy obriens arrangments of traditional irish tunes abc, pdf, psg, notes. Canadian fiddle tunes by allen sheet music for fiddle. In 2014 i was invited by the music publisher, schott music to produce a book and cd of canadian fiddle tunes as part of their world music series. Ive included only the jigs, reels, and waltzes for now. There is an old time tune dating back to the civil war called john browns march, which is fun to play. By graham townsend many styles of fiddle playing including celtic, cajun, swing, scottish and french canadian. Customs gap gtr tab aka tuttles reel practice video moderate.
The fiddle, which was the most favored instru ment for this class of tunes, was brought to. Hover the mouse pointer at the bottom of the screen. It was quite a challenge, no less because i hadnt fully realised how many hundreds of fantastic canadian tunes were still protected and therefore not available for. One major caveat was that the tunes should no longer be in. Tune name for sheet music pdf file, piano keys for synthesized midi file, audio for recording or audio for backup track. Midi irish washerwoman, murphys irish jig, with a bass line version from murphys collection of 1809, with some more modern parody. How could i refuse i lol too, actually it sounds relatively simple, and is a frenchcanadian jig something that doesnt show up on the shorties list, so should give nice variety. Allards father was a violoneux, and, when allard reached the age of nine, he began formal fiddle instruction. Louis was a french canadian fiddler of great ability.
John lamancusas old time fiddle tune page, pdf, no. Traditional frenchcanadian dance music if youre interested in learning some of this wonderful music, there is a terrific resource in the blog site of pascal gemme, fiddler with the outstanding quebecois band genticorum. As a testament to his abilities, in 1974 carignan was named the greatest fiddle player in north american by the order of canada. Being part of all this is an incredible experience. France is perhaps not as famous for fiddle music as ireland, scotland or romania is, but. Joseph allard february 1, 1873 november 14, 1947 was a quebec fiddler who made many popular recordings earning him the title the prince of fiddlers. The only doctoring im going to on grangers files is too remove his announcement of the.
By no means a final compendium of acadian fiddlers, it was our wish to start a dialogue and encourage research into the lives and music of the great fiddlers of the acadian regions that have inspired us and made us dance through the years. These are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif andor in abc notation. It is strongly suggested that the tunes first be heard in their original audio v. Tune collections on the internet bite your own elbow. A random assortment of resources for sheet music, tablature, lyrics and recordings of mostly american traditional music. Devil in the hay stack gtr tab practice video moderate. Each pdf file has all the pages and parts for each set. I also teach some bluegrass and country style fiddle, but with a more limited repertoire. Look for french names andor do searches with terms such as reel, quadrille, cotillon, valse, gigue, etc.
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