music sources

[Elizabeth Gilmore]

Hi all,  I am not ty]ied to sheet music to learn tunes.. but i would like to collect addresses of places where good hg music could be found... I am interested in medieval, elizabethan, english country, celtic (french, irish, breton, welsh) , french canadian types of music...

any suggestions?  they can be video or sheet music...thanks!!  

has this hg for some time, and just havent gotten started on it.(I think Im a little intimidated by it...)

Beth Gilmore

[Graham Whyte]

Beth,

Have a look at
http://www.hurdygurdy.org/resources.html

There is quite a lot of HG music there including my tune book

Graham (aka Jamie Hammond)

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[Barnaby Walters]

Hi Beth!

You might be able to find some tunes of interest in my gurdy music collection: http://waterpigs.co.uk/music/ — it’s mainly trad French material but there’s a lot of medieval and early English stuff in there too. Let me know if you have any problems browsing it.

All the best,
Barnaby

[Elizabeth Gilmore]

Barnaby... Thanks...!  All that is right up my alley... trad french is what I was mainly looking for as I dont have much, and the others...yes!thanks  Beth gilmore

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[Clare Rose]

Hi Beth
I highly recommend a French website called www.diatojo.com/tablatures. The first page has a drawing of a circle of dancers - clicking on each dancer leads to a page of tunes for a specific dance type (waltz, bourree, scottishe, polka - and some uncommon types like sauteuse). The tunes are in midi format (both electronically generated and recorded) and usually with scores as well (mostly for G/C tuning). Two advantages of this site 1) it clarifies which dance each tune is intended for; poules houppees is too often played as a waltz when it's a 3-time bourree! 2) it gives authors for many of the new tunes, and origins for many of the older ones. There's even a link to Maxou Heintzen's site where you can find the words for his mazurka l'inconnu de limoise.
If you're just starting, I recommend you stick to the trad French tunes for a while as they are usually more manageable; for some of the breton tunes you don't need to move your hand from the start position! Irish tunes are usually written for fiddles and are HARD to play on the gurdy, too many leaps up and down the scale.
Best
Clare

[Elizabeth Gilmore]

Clare, Wow!  that sounds like a great site...I also folkdance  so this will help me (you dont know of a good site for french folkdance do you?)(espcially bourees, gavottes)..

iI am also learning the fiddle so the irish I can cover on the fiddle... but I love the french tunes..I re-fell-in-love with them after hearing Celtic Fiddle Festival with Christian LeMaitre he plays some wonderful suites..  I love that the french music and the meter? (is that the right word?)  they always seem to have extra measures thrown in here and there that make them sort of (crooked? .. blue grass term I think) Does that make sense? I know what I am talking about but dont know the correct musical terminology for it....Perhaps you do?...

Anyway... thank you for your feedback... I will make good use of it!  Beth Gilmore

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[MITC...@aol.com]

Hi Beth...Christian LeMaitre is Breton, and the tunes I've heard him play with CFF are traditional Breton. Which is interesting stuff, and a genre in its own right (the crooked tunes you mention are definitely to be found in the Breton repertoire, especially among the gavottes and larides). And yes, Brittany is in France (although Bretons might try to argue the point), so trad Breton music could be considered one kind of trad French. But trad French, as most gurdy players use the term, really refers to the music of central France - Bourbonnais, Berry, Auvergne - and that's where the French gurdy repertoire is almost entirely from. It's very different music from Breton music. Look for music of La Chavannee, Patrick Bouffard, Gilles Chabenat (especially Ecoliers de Saint Genest), Vielleux du Bourbonnais, Cafe Charbons, early La Bambouche. A lot is out of print, but some is available as MP3 on iTunes or Amazon. And there are several good videos on YouTube, of playing as well as dancing. And there's a really good small label out of Paris called AEPEM that has been turning out great trad French recordings in the last 10 years, and you can buy their CDs in the US through a family member in California (named Claudie) of one of the guys that runs it (her husband Martin is on this list). Email me for their US contact info if you want. I especially recommend the group Carre de Deux on their label.

 

Mitch Gordon

Guerneville, California, US

[Elizabeth Gilmore]

Mitch,, thanks for the information... I need to learn more about the traditional folk regions of France and Breton,  I would like to understand better the regions and the type of music from them.  and as I said I teach a small international folk group and would really like to work in some bourees and other dance forms... but I dont know very much about them yet...all I do know is that here are some WONDERFUL tunes out there and I want to learn them and want to learn the dances that go with them.. thanks for the information and if you think of anything else .. send it my way!  thanks again! Beth gilmore