L’Air Mignonne barndance

There are 2 recordings of this tune.

L’Air Mignonne has been added to 42 tune sets.

L'Air Mignonne has been added to 171 tunebooks.

Seven settings

X: 1
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
EAB |: c>c/c e cBAB | c>c/c e cBAc | F>F/F A E>E/E c |1 BAGA BEAB :|2 BAGB AAce ||
|:f>f/f a fece| f>f/f a fecA | F>F/F A E>E/E c |1 BAGA BAce :|2 BAGB A4 ||

X: 2
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
EAB |: c>cce cBAB | c>cce cBAB | F3A E3 c |1 BAGA BEAB :|2 BAGB ABce ||
|:f>ffa fece| f>ffa fecA | F>FF A E3c |1 BAGA BEce :|2 BAGB AEAB ||

X: 3
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
V:1 treble
V:2 treble
V:1
|: c>cce cBAB | c>cce cBAB | F3A E3 c |1 BAGA BEAB :|2 BAGB ABce ||
V:2
|: a>aab agge | a>aab agge | f>ffe e>ee c |1 BAGA BEAe :|2 ecBA ABcA ||
V:1
|: f>ffa fece| f>ffa fecA | F>FFA E3c |1 BAGA BEce :|2 BAGB AEAB ||
V:2
|: d>dde dccA| d>dde dccA | f>ffA e>eec |1 BAGA BEce :|2 ecBA AEAe ||

X: 4
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
EAB | c3e cBAB | c3e cBAB | F3A E3 c | BAGA BEAB |
c3e cBAB | c3e cBAB | F3A E3 c| BAGB ABce ||
|f3a fece| f3a fecA | F3A E3c | BAGA BEce |
f3a fece| f3a fecA | F3A E3c |BAGB A||

X: 5
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
DGA | B3d BAGA | B3d BAGA | E3G D3 B | AGFG ADGA |
B3d BAGA | B3d BAGA | E3G D3 B| AGFA GABd ||
|e3g edBd| e3g edBG | E3G D3B | AGFG ADBd |
e3g edBd| e3g edBG | E3G D3B |AGFA GDGA||

X: 6
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

X: 7
T: L'Air Mignonne
R: barndance

Eleven comments

L’Air Mignonne

This is a tune composed by Simon Riopel from Montreal. He plays it in alternate tuning as AEAE.

Here’s a youtube of Simon playing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGaiiCRJg7U

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I learned this tune from Yan Falquet in June, 2014 while he was visiting at a fiddle camp in California. He played it on his concertina, and it has a really nice French air feel to it.

L’Air Mignonne

I forgot to add that the title means "cute, little tune." And it is that.

A slightly more up tempo version from the band Ímar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hur5jYWD9B4

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Re: L’Air Mignonne

Just edited the abc’s for this tune. It was my first learn-by-ear tune and then I transcribed it to abc format. Just came back to it, and realized it needed some help. Nice to know I have made a wee bit of progress since my first endeavors.

Fancy title ?

The French word for "tune" is masculine so it should be "l’air mignon" !
I don’t know Quebec idioms but from France this title really sounds like a wordplay between "the cute tune" and "(the girl who) looks cute" 😉

L’Air Mignonne, X:2

From the great set by Imar on their Demo album
https://imarband.bandcamp.com/track/air-mignonne

Re: L’Air Mignonne

Le Vent du Nord’s Olivier Demers does a nice job of this song here. Réjean Brunet is also there, as many others at Copenhagen’s Cloakroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUY7cdamXKM