Also known as Marche De Mariage En Berry, Marche Nuptiale, Marriage March From Berry, Marriage March III.
Marche Nuptiale From Berry has been added to 2 tune sets.
Marche Nuptiale From Berry has been added to 15 tunebooks.
As above; I’m certain it’s French and I think it’s a bourree. I heard this at the end of the 80s on an album (forget which) by Blowzabella, a band that pioneered the revival on the English scene of outlandish North European bagpipes with eye-poking drones that make a session look like something by Breughel. Blowzabella were, or still are, a very good band. Their major instruments were bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and melodeon.
Interesting that this is described as a “bourrée”, rather than as a slide, which it seems closer to. The bourrées I know by J S Bach (e.g. in his cello suites) are in 2/2 time, and are fairly close to reels in their feel when playing them. Is there another type of bourrée in 12/8 time?
Maybe it’s not a bourree and I’ve got that wrong; I am, though, certain it’s French.
Its in the first Blowzabella tunebook as Marriage March 3, the pink Massif Central tunebook has it as March Nuptiale from Berry. The seminal 1979 recording ‘Vielleux du Bourbonnais’ has it as #3 of the ‘trois marches de mariage en Berry’
It is a 6/8 march, but definately works as an english style jig.
French style bourrees can be in either 2/4 ( 2 time bourree) or in 3/8 ( 3 times bourree)
You beat me to it thorsdog…
Compiled by Mel Stevens
Dragonfly Music (Matt Seattle), 1987
Tune #120: “Marche Nuptiale” (Berry)
Compiled by the then members of Blowzabella: Dave Armitage, Nigel Eaton, Paul James, Ian Luff, Dave Roberts, Dave Shepherd, Cliff Stapleton & Jon Swayne
Dragonfly Music (Matt Seattle), 1987
Page 10: “Marriage March III”
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: march
K: G Major
|: E |
DGB DGB BAG A3 | DFA D2 A cBA B2 G |
DG/A/B D2 B BAG A2 F | D>FA cAF DEF G2 :|
|: E |
DGB d2 ^c d2 =c A3 | DE/F/A cBB c2 d B2 G |
DGB d^cd d=cB A3 | DFA c2 A DEF G2 :|
~ à deux temps = 2/4
~ à trios temps = 3/8
reiteration ~ 😏
& a high recommendation ~ “Bulleit Bourbon” ~ mmmmm!!! 🙂
is there anything can redeem that sort of tune? (Romantique novelist George Sand wrote of the Berry region’s musical style that it was to heavy or square, she might have been right!) Try in Gmin (with f# and eb) / starting from second or third quaver?