The Mouth Of The Tobique (Reel): Fiddle Lesson by Kevin Burke
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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The Mouth of the Tobique is a great traditional French Canadian fiddle reel played out of the key of G. Although this is a Quebec-style origin tune, renowned Irish fiddler Kevin Burke puts his touch on it and breaks down the melody note for note in the tutorials. This song moves right along, so hold on tight!
The full lesson includes sheet music, guitar backup tracks, multiple instructional videos, A/B video looping, video speed controls, and MP3 audio downloads.
Beautiful!!
+Roxanna Bender Thanks, Roxanna. Kevin's fairly awesome.
The Mouth of The Tobique is an English tune. The Tobique is a river in New Brunswick. Warning: Don't go to a dance on the Tobique and call it a French tune. Archie Barr and George Maunder played it very well.
"French Canadian" isn't the same as "French" anyway... In New Brunswick French sounds like English and English sounds like French ;-)
" :-) wonderful"
Regarding the origins of this tune, here's a note I put on a youtube vid. of Don Messer playing it (I'm NOT Peter Rolland, btw!):
C'etait attribue a Francis Sowash, de Nouveau- Brunswick - mais c'est deroutant. De listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0712A&L=FIDDLE-L&P=R1021&1=FIDDLE-L&9=A&I=-3&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4 :
Mouth of the Tobique
During my Nat'l Endowment for the Arts research project in 1977 into fiddling styles, New Brunswick fiddler Clarence Langen told me that Mouth Of The Tobique (named after the Tobique river in New Brunswick) is better known as Grumbling Old Woman Growling Old Man. Clarence's aunt was the music teacher of the composer, an Indian fiddler named Francis Sowish. The famed Canadian radio fiddler Don Messer in his tunebook mistakenly switched the name of two Sowish compositions and published Sowish's tune "French Mary" under the name "Mouth of the Tobique". I don't know whether or not Francis Sowish "published" his tunes or merely composed them whence they passed into oral tradition. Don Messer got hold of them somehow. ... judging from Clarence's birthdate & his personal account of the tune, I would guess that the tune was composed between 1910 & 1930. I'm sorry this doesn't pin it down more precisely.
Best wishes,
Peter
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Peter Rolland, Ph.D, director
Rolland String Research Associates
I thought this was a New Brunswick tune ?
Yes - it's said to have been composed by a Native fiddler named Francis Siwash. The Tobique is a river in New Brunswick. I don't believe the third turn, with the syncopated shuffle, was part of the original tune - don't know who came up with that.
Yes, New Brunswick still has a large French Canadian population, it's the only province that's officially bilingual. French Canadian communities are also present in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia.