Ti-jean

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on December 29th 2003 by lazyhound.

This tune has been added to 62 tunebooks.

Also known as Liberty, Liberty Hornpipe, The Liberty Hornpipe, Liberty Two-Step, The Liberty Two-Step, The Liberty, The Preacher And The Racoon, Racoon And Possum, Racoon And Preacher, The Racoon And The Parson, Racoon And The Possum, The Racoon And The Posum, Racoon And The Preacher, The Racoon And The Preacher, Reel De Ti-Jean, Ti-Jean, Tipsy Parson, The Tipsy Parson.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

First Footing by Anam
Grand Tour: Traditional Music On Piano by Eric Eid-Reiner
Jefferson And Liberty by The Itinerant Band

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Ti-jean (reel)

Submitted in response to a request by Fiddlehead.
Also known as "Reel de Ti-Jean".
Note the double stops in the last bar of the first half.
This version comes from the "New England Fiddler's Repertoire" collection.
Trevor

# Posted on December 29th 2003 by lazyhound

Ti-jean

This is the American civil war tune,"Liberty".

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

Liberty

We play this tune in the bluegrass band, and I know a lot of people throughout the Southeastern US (specifically the Blue Ridge mountains) who know it as part of the standard American fiddler's repertoire. My understanding is that it is very old, in one form or another, as I know a slightly different B part. I think my banjo player learned it off "Strictly Instrumental," an old Columbia LP by Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt. Any notes on the history would be great, I'll see what I can dig up. Always liked this one, I have...

# Posted on January 2nd 2004 by gravelwalks

"Liberty" ~ skipping back from the future ~

Submitted on June 15th 2006 by rzaikoski.

# Posted on June 15th 2006 by ceolachan

"New England Fiddler's Repertoire" ~ Randy Miller

by Randy Miller and Jack Perron
New revised 2003 edition:
Second Edition by Randy Miller and Robert Bley-Vroman

http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
http://www.randymillerprints.com/NEFRbook.htm

"What's new about NEFR2? Easier-to-read music typesetting, chords added, index by key, list of alternate titles, sturdy plastic coil binding, and decorated with over two dozen Randy Miller wood engravings, including "A Time to Dance."

What's NOT new about NEFR2? Still the same 168 classic traditional contra dance melodies, from Batchelder's Reel to Money Musk to Portland Fancy and beyond -- the standard contra tunes in one source, with an introduction by Newt Tolman. The second edition of NEFR is produced with assistance from the Gadd/Merrill Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society." ~ Randy Miller

# Posted on June 17th 2006 by ceolachan

Liberty

I remember playing this when I was at school under the title "Liberty", but haven't played it since. It might have been labelled as a two-step on my sheetmusic, which I don't have to hand, but I have a feeling we played it with reels. The way we played it was more like rzaikoski's setting posted above by ceolachan, but our part endings went down low, which was perhaps why we played it after the Merry Blacksmith. The setting we played was as follows:

X: 1
T: Liberty
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel (two-step?)
K: D Major
f2A2 f2A2|fgfe d2ef|g2B2 g2B2|gagf efge|
f2A2 f2A2|fgfe d2ef|gfed cABc|1 dBAF D2de:|2 dBAF D2FG||
|:A2AB AGFE|DFAd f2d2|A2AB AFED|A,2C2 E2G2|
A2AB AGFE|DFAd fdef|gfed cABc|1 dBAF D2FG:|2 dBAF D2de||

To be honest I was never particularly liked the B-part bar 4 I'd been given, and prefer the alternative suggested by rzaikoski.

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by Dow

Damn Dow, you kept your submission at hand to replace it here... You haven't mine by any chance have you? ~ or Hetty's? I can probably find something of it somewhere here in the mess, but I would prefer it be easier... I did ask Jeremy but got the usual answer, something like "tough luck!" Well, I should have known better... It's not like I haven't been there before ~

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by ceolachan

I know I know. No, I just wrote out again what I still have in my head from when we used to play it when I was a kid.

Check your e-mail.

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by Dow

I just remembered we might have played the Shetland tune Willafjord after it.

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by Dow

"Liberty Hornpipe" / "Tipsy Parson" ~ a contra dance standard

This tune is one of the many 'chestnuts' of New England contra dance music, and wherever that form of dancing has taken hold ~ all across North America, the U.S.A. and Canada, and over here in Europe ~ that tune has usually travelled with it.

Like with the genereal treatment by old time musicians in all those places, it is more usually played straight, not swung, as 'hornpipes', despite the name, are handled by these same musicians, in general... This tune under various names has also been in the repertoire of the various traditions that fall under the collective 'The Canadian Maritimes', which includes Quebec and the islands of Cape Breton, Prince Edward and Newfoundland...

I have also known this tune with the swing of a hornpipe / barndance / schottische to it, and I've played and danced to it that way too... And, there are a few places where a 'snap' could be snuk in...

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by ceolachan

Yeah yeah go on, squeeze that swingy schottische setting out, 'c'. I know it's in there. You just have to push harder. Just be careful not to pop a vein.

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by Dow

Not me ~ you're thinking of 'phantom button' there. The lad's unhinged... ;-)

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by ceolachan

Willafjord ~ reel - - - yes, a good match...

Submitted on September 24th 2001 by Redbird.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/292

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by ceolachan

Reel Du Semeur / Sower's Reel ~ this is the one Hetty plays with it...

Submitted on June 17th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5871

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by ceolachan

Tipsey Parson

Here's my ABC for Tipsey Parson. Very similar to rzaikski's but the differences are, I feel, well worth noting, in particular the upward movement in 'A' music bar 2 and the run of notes in bar 4.
||: f2A2 f2A2 | fgfe dd^ef | g2B2 g2B2 | gagf ecde | f2A2 f2A2 | fafe d2cd | efed cABc | 1 dfec d2de :|| 2 dfec d2FG ||
||: A2AB AGFE | DFAD FDAF | A2AB AGFD | E3E E2FG | A2AB AGFE | DFAd f2ef | gfed cABc | dfec d2 :||

The 'B' music of Ti-Jean is reminiscent of another American oldie but I will have to look into that.

# Posted on June 20th 2006 by hetty

Captain McGuire

The 'A' music of Captain McGuire is similar to the 'B' music of Ti-Jean in bars 1 & 2, 5 & 6. Am not sure that Capt. McG is american though. Can anyone enlighten me? I have not done a search here yet.

# Posted on June 20th 2006 by hetty

Tom Doherty's

Found it as Tom Doherty's Polka.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3631

# Posted on June 20th 2006 by hetty

Tom Doherty's

I play this tune with 'Leather away the Wattle - O

# Posted on June 20th 2006 by hetty

Horpipe

Where I live (California) this is played as a horpipe.

# Posted on October 21st 2007 by EHendey