Danse De Chez Nous jig

Alias “The Canadian Jig Set”… This was one of the sets of jigs “The Shepherds” used to play, Willy Taylor on fiddle, Joe Hutton on Northumbrian smallpipes & Will Atkinson on harmonica. Unfortunately it is one track I don’t have so I haven’t been able to transcribe direct from their playing for this particular tune, the first in the set. That means you get it slighly affected by my take on things, but I’ve tried to be conservative. For balance I will follow with other transcriptions of the melody…

“Dance de Chez Nous” is also played in the key of A Major…

“Aunt Mary’s Canadian Jig”
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on March 25th 2007 by you.
https://thesession.org/tunes/7000

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on March 22nd 2007 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/6987

Aside from also being played in A Major, it can be found played with the A & B parts reversed, BBAA:

K: G Major
|: d |
g2 B dGG | B3 B2 G | D>EF GAB | c3 c2 d |
eAA cDD | F3 F2 d | f>ed cBA |1 B3 B2 :|2 G3 G2 ||
|: B |
DGB d2 B | e2 B dBG | DG/A/B dBB | eBB cAF |
DFA cAA | dAA cAF | DF/G/A cBA |1 BGE D2 :|2 G3 G2 ||

~ and with my fondness for longer second endings:

K: G Major
|: DGB d2 B | e2 B d3 | DGB d2 B | e2 B c3 |
DFA c2 A | d2 A c3 | DFA cBA |1 GBe d3 :|2 G3- G2 ||
|: d |
g2 B d2 G | B3- B2 E | DEF GAB |
[1 c3- c2 d | e2 A c2 G | F3- F2 d | fed cBA | B3- B2 :|
[2 e3- e2 f | gec gec | gdB gdB | fed cBA | G6 ||

Another name for this lovely gigue! I know, there are a lot of square dances in Quebec, and this is part of one ot them. I like your taste in music.

Great, I love it, thanks for the addition vonnieestes, always welcome. I love les carré Quebecois. We just need at least a few more usuals to come on board, and I’m hoping one of them will add the ABC’s for Philippe Bruneau’s excellent but turned around way with it, ‘BBAA’, another who plays it in G…

“Quadrilles Quebecois”!

Danse caree, deuxieme partie = square dance, second part (figure)

For anyone who may come across this and not know, in Quebec, as in the rest of the Canadian Maritimes and beyond, which includes the islands of Isles de la Madeleine, Prince Edward, Cape Breton and Newfoundland ~ the quadrilles are part of the tradition, as they are in Eire, where they are mostly referred to as ‘sets’, from the older full phrase “set of quadrilles”… The same sets were danced in all these places, and this includes what was known as ‘The Plain Set’, or ‘1st Set’, or ‘Paris Set’, ‘Les Lanciers’ / ‘The Lancers’, and the Caledonian, to name the most common… North American square dance, both sides of the border and in various ‘states’ (provinces 😉 ), from loose, welcoming and old time to starched, precise, competitive and federated, evolved from these common roots… You can find some interesting introductions to one of my favourite forms, including how to call and figures, here:

http://www.bubbaguitar.com/
~ a look at southern squares ~
http://www.bubbaguitar.com/square/index.html
~ West Virginia Squares ~ Bob Dalsemer
http://www.cdss.org/publications/wvasquares/index.html
~ the Kentucky Running Set ~ Hugh Stewart
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/round/dances/krs/

It’s a super tune which we already play with “Lemonville”
https://thesession.org/tunes/3323
“DCN” being the 2nd. tune. We play it fairly steadily, somewhat slowly I suppose.

Hey, there’s one already… So, what key do you play it in hetty?

I found Philippe Bruneau’s version under this link:

http://imagesetmusiques.free.fr/reels.html



T: Danse de chez nous
O: Philippe Bruneau
R: jig
Z: 1997 by John Chambers http://eddie.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
d \
|: “G”g2B d2G | B3- B2G | DEF GAB | “Am”c3- c2d | “D7”e2A c2G | F3- F2d
| fed cBA |1 “G”B3- B2 :|2 “G”G6 ||
|: “G”DGB d2B | e2B dBG | DGB d2B | e2B “D7”cAF | DFA c2A | d2A cAF |
DFA cBA |1 “G”G3{Be}d3 :|2 “G”G3{Bd}g3 |]

I knew you’d come through Carabus, and you give credit where it is due too… 🙂

Here is that transcriptions with the A & B parts moved around for a closer comparison with the other takes here ~

O: Philippe Bruneau
K: G Major
|: DGB d2 B | e2 B dBG | DGB d2 B | e2 B cAF |
DFA c2 A | d2 A cAF | DFA cBA |[1 G3 d3 :|[2 G3 g2 d |]
|: g2 B d2 G | B3- B2 G | DEF GAB | c3- c2 d |
e2 A c2 G | F3- F2 d | fed cBA |[1 B3- B2 :|[2 G6 ||

Just realized the missing d for the first ending of that B-part:

~ |[1 B3- B2 d :|[2 G6 ||

K: A Major
|: A |
EAc e2 c | f2 c ecA | EAc e2 c | f2 c dBG |
EGB d2 B | e2 B dBG | EGB d2 B |[1 Acf e2 :|[2 Ace a2 ||
|: g |
a2 c e2 A | c3 -c2 E | EFG ABc | d3 -d2 e |
f2 B d2 E | G3 -G2 e | gfe dcB |[1 Acf e2 :|[2 Ac/d/e a2 ||

Pour vous ‘c’
“Lemonville” as here on the session in ‘D’ and “DdeCN” in ‘G’

The second half sounds very similar to The Mexican Hat Dance. Is there some cosmic-music connection?

rogmc

Hmmmm…

K: G Major
|: dd |
dBB BGG GD2- DB,C | DEF GAB cA2- Acc |
cAA AFF FD2- Ddd |[1 ded cBA BG2- G :|[2 ded cBA G3- G ||
AA |
AEE EGG G F2- FAA | AEE EGG F3- FAA |
AEE EGG G F2- FAA | ABA GFE D3- Ddd |
dBB BGG G D2- DB,C | DEF GAB c A2- Acc |
cAA AFF F D2- Ddd | ded cBA G3- G ||

I seenkey so too: eef dey are note seesteres dey mastey bee coseens