On Jan 3, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Erik Hoffman via Contra Callers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> I'd look for other good 40-bar tunes like:
> • Three Thin Dimes
> • Three-way Hornpipe
> • The Snoring Mrs. Gobiel
> • the 5-part Fox Hunter's Jig
> ...
Those titles could be good leads, but beware that when a title is a associated
with a 40-bar version of a tune, it may also be associated with versions of
other lengths.
For example, "The Snoring Mrs. Gobiel" (a/k/a ("[La] Ronfleuse Gobiel") is
indeed commonly played as a 40-bar tune, as in the rendition by La Bottine
Souriante at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLY38H9R0I
However, the Traditional Tune Archive's page on the tune
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Ronfleuse_Gobeil
shows both 32-bar and 40-bar versions, the essential difference being that the
B part is played only once in the 32-bar version and twice in the 40-bar
version. The 32-bar version is almost identical to the one in _The New
England Fiddler's Repertoire_ (at least in my second edition). I presume the
editors of NEFR chose a 32-bar version to fit standard-length contras. The
annotations at
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Ronfleuse_Gobeil
also mention a version lacking the C part recorded by Jos Bouchard under the
title "Reel St-Siméon" and a slightly crooked version recorded by Isidore
Soucy under the title "Gigue des vieux souliers" (Old Shoes Jig).
Unfortunately if a tune has been recorded in versions with different numbers of
bars, the sample snippets at Amazon and other sites are often too short to
reveal which version is being offered.
--Jim
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