Mouvement De Gigue jig

by J.Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)

IMHO this is something like a Muineira, isn’t it?

This is a nice piece, but from a different genre. What’s the point of posting it on this site?

slainte, I think it is not exactly a tune from the session top 100 list, but it shows an older form of a jig and so is linked to what we are doing. I will give it a try on the uillean (flat) pipes.
BTW I got it from my son who learns it in his recorder lessons in the probably original key of C. There are a lot of tunes posted here with much less relationship to ITM, like Christmas carols…

If nothing else, it is a useful example, rare on this website, of how to write the ABC for two independent voices.

Some queries regarding accidentals in the A-part:
Bar 10: top line, should not the second note be f-nat (=f);
bottom line, last note, is it c-nat or c-sharp, bearing in mind the modulation to D major that is just coming up.
Bar 11: top line, last note. Is it c-nat or c-sharp? There seems to be a natural modulation to D major, and Boismortier wouldn’t have been writing modally.
Bar 15: bottom line, last note. Again, is it c-nat or c-sharp? This isn’t a modal piece, is it?

Bar 10 is an error of transposing from F to G
Bar 11&15 my source gives C nat
(in bar 11 I prefer C-sharp as well)

lazydog, can you explain why Boismortier would not make modal changes - that was an option before baroque, too.

Sorry:
Bar 10 *is* f-nat
I’ve changed the abc for that

-“it shows an older form of a jig and so is linked to what we are doing”
In other words, swisspiper, “a jig is a jig is a gigue”?
Mm, I don’t think so. It’s a rather lame excuse actually! You remind me of this Irishman I met who worked in Iceland. He got p*ssed off by a local guy who offered him a drink only ‘because ‘there was only one letter difference between Iceland and Ireland’’(!) It isn’t that your Co Down man hadn’t a sense of humour, or didn’t like a free drink, but he got incensed by the ignorance and the lack of real curiosity/engagement of the other fellow. (Perhaps this Scandinavian liked to assume we’re all equal? Or felt safer to engage in concepts rather than share genuine experiences? Preferred statements to questions? I guess that’s a totally different debate. )
Anyhow, it turns out we don’t know how old most Irish tunes really are, there is a chance that this here ‘gigue’ is at least contemporary to, if not altogether more modern than some of the common session jigs. It’s also rather strong harmonically and… weak melodically, not terribly appropriate in a session?
Now, if you like the tune and want to share it, that’s enough and that’s fair.
But if you’re interested in the Historical debate there’s plenty of literature on the subject already… You could submit it as a discussion?