Annotation:Galope de la Baie St-Paul

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X:1 T:Galope de la Baie St-Paul C:Trad. M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Galope D:The Fiddleheads - "Les Deux Rives" N:"Simple chords for double stop purposes" Z:Transcribed by Steve Fry K:D |:"D"DEFG (3ABA FA|dz Fz [D2A2] FA|f2 ed "A"(3[ce]dc cc|BABc (3B/c/B/ A FE| "D"DEFG (3ABA FA|dz Fz [D2A2] FA|f2 ed "A"(3cdc cA|1 BABc "D"dBAF:|2 BABc "D"dBAG| |:"D"FAde zf (3e/f/e/ d|e2f2"G"g3B|{c}(3B/c/B/ A Bc (3BcB AG|FGAB "A"(3ABA GA| "D"FAde zf (3e/f/e/ d|e2f2 "G"g3A|{c}BABd "A"(3cdc AA|1 BABc "D"dBAG:|2 BABc "D"dBAF||



GALOPE DE BAIE ST-PAUL. AKA and see "Calédonia (Le)," "Calédonia partie No. 4," "Galope du Bas-Saguenay," "Reel de St-Ferréol," "Set americain 1ère partie," "St-Féréole." French-Canadian, Galope (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Ville de Baie St-Paul is a city in Québec on the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River mid-way between Québec City and Tadoussac. It was where Cirque du Soleil originated in the 1980's. The tune has been recorded under a variety of names, but seems to have been widespread in the province from the Gaspé to Saguenay, Charlevoix and Québec City, often as a quadrille part.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Jos. Bouchard [Demers].

Printed sources : - Olivier Demers (1000 airs du Québec et de l’Amérique francophone), 2020; p. 70.

Recorded sources : - Le Tamanoir MTMC 1803-4, 'Ensemble Folklorique de Baie St-Paul (François Xavier Tremblay, Jean-Paul Bélanger, Paul-Henri Lavoie, Philippe Bélanger) - "Gigues Et Galopes: Musique Traditionnelle Du Québec" (Recorded 1975, edited 1989. Appears as "Galope du Bas-Saguenay"[1]). Standard Vox A-108 (78 RPM), Théodore Duguay (1945, as "Set americain 1ère partie").




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  1. It is possible that the title "Galope du Bas-Saguenay" is a misnomer, as the group Ensemble Folklorique de Baie St-Paul listed it simply as "La Galope" on their original recording "Portrait du Vieux Kebec".