Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on September 17th 2004 by Kerri Brown.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as Issoudun, Reel D'Issodun.
X: 1
T: Reel D'Issodun
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
efge a2gf | eagf edcd | efge a2 gf | eagf edcA | BAGB A4 :|
c2 c2 B4 | BABc dcBA | c2 c2 B3 c | BAGB A4 | EAAB c2 c2 |
B4 BABc | dcBA c2 c2 | B3 c BAGB | A4 EAAB |
c2 c2 B4 | BABc dcBA | c2 c2 B3 c| BAGB A4||
Simple Quebecois Reel - fun for the whole family
This is a simplified notation off the top of my head. Not even sure the name is spelled properly - I've only heard it bellowed in a noisy pub. Requested by CSL. Hope it satisfies.
# Posted on September 17th 2004 by Kerri Brown
Wow, I have a recording of John Hartford playing this at a fiddle workshop. He says the name of the tune at some point, but the recording wasn't good enough to catch it. He plays it pretty similiar to the version posted here.
# Posted on September 18th 2004 by withak
As best as I can make out, he says the name is something like "Reel of Isodune", the last word pronounced eye-soh-doon.
# Posted on September 18th 2004 by withak
Issodun is French town, apparently. In which case the title ought to be "Reel D'Issodun", not "Reel de L'Issodun".
# Posted on September 19th 2004 by Kerri Brown
Quebecois sheetmusic available through...
Reel d'Issoudun is also notated in one of the two small but excellent volumes of crooked Quebecois tunes under the heading of "Tortues"(crooked)published in Canada within the last 10 years.
# Posted on September 21st 2004 by vonnieestes
There is a recording of this tune on the CD "Airs Tordus" available from "Trente sous Zero" in Quebec.
# Posted on September 23rd 2004 by adam b
Great Recording
Great recording of this by Nightingale on Sometimes When the Moon is High, paired with La Grondeuse.
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by chautauqua
I have a copy of the "Airs Tordus" CD by "Les Tetes de Violon", and it is spelled "Issoudun" there.
One of my favorite tunes. The crooked measures always throw off the guitarists/banjos/mandolins though.
I'll look for those books of crooked tunes.
# Posted on March 25th 2009 by cfarnen
Also, that version uses a small, eighth-note E pickup to the A part. (The first note is therefore played twice.)
# Posted on March 25th 2009 by cfarnen
Now that I think about it, those tune books were for sale when I was at Maine fiddle camp when Guy Brouchard was there last summer (2008) I almost bought them, but didn't. :(
Guy Brouchard will be there again in 2009 during the first week of the August camp.
# Posted on March 25th 2009 by cfarnen