Reel Des Sucres

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on August 10th 2005 by Yukinoroh.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Also known as Reel De Normandin.

X: 1
T: Reel Des Sucres
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
ff |: f2g2 f2d2 | B2d2 Azff | f2g2 f2d2 | B2d2 AAee |
e2f2 e2c2 | B2A2 eeee | e2f2 e2c2 |[1 B2A2 ddff :|[2 B2A2 d2FG ||
|: A2 A-A1/4B3/4 A2G2 | F2F2 F2A2 | d2f2 a2g2 | f2d2 c2d2 |
e2f2 g-g1/4a3/4g-g1/4f3/4 | g2e2 e2e2 | g2g1/2a3/4g3/4 fg1/2f3/4ed3/4 | c2A2 B2c2 |
M: 2/4
|[1 d2FG :|
M: 2/2
|[2 dz |]

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My first contribution =)

Here's my first contribution. I hope the abc file will play (^-^;

It's a Québécois reel that would translate in english by "Sugaring Reel". A notable performance is by fiddler Isidore Soucy in 1938, and I think he wrote the tune too.

See : http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=1&l_ef_l=-1&id=957273.1106692&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&itm=31395372&rsn=S_WWWpdadVebPY&all=1&dt=MC+|sucres|&spi=-&rp=1&vo=1

# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Yukinoroh

Mistake in the ABC

Last line should read :

(There's an extra bar at the end)

# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Yukinoroh

I put the fixes in

I wonder if that will work...

# Posted on August 10th 2005 by Yukinoroh

If your edits don't appear in the sheet music, then just accept it as the modern folk tradition at work. In future the wrong version will be performed at sessions all over the world, and will be accepted as the definitive version! Personally, I find its the only way I can make my own mark on the music!
On the topic of the tune.. what speed does it go at. I wouldn't want to play it at the mdid speed on this site and make another contribution to the oral tradition.
Cheers

# Posted on August 10th 2005 by _________

Yeah I know, I was told that the sheetmusic nor the midi won't get updated. Too bad. I could even make them myself. (Five Line Skink rules!)

For the speed, follow the link I put in my first post. On the page there's a link to a free mp3 of it by Isidore Soucy. (I've been listening to it all the time these last days hehehe.)

# Posted on August 11th 2005 by Yukinoroh

Not to be confused with...

Hi, Yuki...
"Reel des Sucres" is a title also applied to the two jigs comprising what some of us in the USA know as "Portland Fancy". Thanks for the post of this particular version.
I also have enjoyed some great stuff (streaming RA) on the Virtual Gramophone site. Too bad they don't have any Carignan on there to date.

# Posted on August 12th 2005 by vonnieestes

Carignan...

As far as I know, he never made any gramophone recordings, hence, none of his recordings will find there way onto that public domain site.

# Posted on August 14th 2005 by Orlando

Alan Mills and Jean Carignan
Songs, Fiddle Tunes and a Folk-Tale from Canada
Folkways Records FG 3532, 1966.

Should be available through the Smithsonian/Folkways website.

# Posted on August 14th 2005 by GaryAMartin

P.S. Amazon.com has two titles available, a single CD for $8 and a three CD set for $85.

# Posted on August 14th 2005 by GaryAMartin

Fixed transcript

When I heard my aunt playing the tune, I noticed she uses a different key, and I thought she was mistaken, but I have transcripted the tune once again from the Virtual Gramophone, and it looks like I was the one being mistaken. It sounds nice in D, but the original version is in B.

X: 1
T: Reel Des Sucres
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmaj
dd |: d2e2 d2B2 | G2B2 Fzdd | d2e2 d2B2 | G2B2 FFcc |
c2d2 c2B2 | G2F2 cccc | c2d2 c2B2 |[1 G2F2 BBdd :|[2 G2F2 B2DE ||
F2FG F2E2 | D2D2 D2F2 | B2d2 f2e2 | d2B2 A2B2 |
c2d2 efed | e2c2 c2c2 | e2 (3efe (3ded cB | A2A2 G2A2 |
B2 DE F2FG | F2E2 D2D2 | D2F2 B2d2 | f2e2 d2B2 | A2B2 c2d2 |
efed e2c2 | c2c2 e2 (3efe | (3ded cB A2A2 | G2A2 Bzdd |

(By the way, that key cannot be selected within The Session, even not as mixolydian or dorian...)

# Posted on November 19th 2005 by Yukinoroh

Reel de Normandin

Here's another version of this reel, known as Reel de Normandin (from the playing of Tommy Duchesne on the Virtual Gramophone).

X: 1
T: Reel De Normandin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
Q:225
Ad |:\
M:4/4
fzgz f2d2 | B2d2 A2dd | fzgz f2d2 | B2d2 A2ee |
ezfz e2c2 | B2A2 e2ee | ezfz e2c2 |\
M:6/4
[1 B2A2 d4 dzAF :|[2 B2A2 d2FG A2GF ||
|:\
M:4/4
F4 F2A2 | d2e2 f2ze | fzb2 a4 | a2f2 d2ff |
e2d2 c4 | c2BB A2F2 |[1 g2e2 c4 | c2BB A2F2 |
M:6/4
e2d2 A4 A3G :|[2\
M:4/4
e2c2 c4 | c2BB AFAA |\
M:6/4
BFBc d4 d2dd |]

# Posted on December 29th 2005 by Yukinoroh

Some more fixes (I updated the ABC):

Plus, nevermind about the Bmaj. It's in Dmaj. The instrument I was using to transcribe that time was badly tuned.

# Posted on January 5th 2006 by Yukinoroh