Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 5th 2009 by nedward.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Galope De La Malbaie, Tiddle Took Todfish.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mackilmoyle's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DFAd fdfd|cdec dBAG|DFA=c BGBG|FGAF E2 FE|
DFAd fdfd|cdec dBAG|DFA=c BGBd|cdec d2 d2|
cdef gf g2|Ace^g a^ga2|Acef gfge|dfed cB A2|
cdef gf g2|Ace^g a^g a2|Acef gfge|cdec d2 d2|
Trad or contemporary?
Is this tune considered traditional, or is it fairly contemporary? I like it pretty well, but I don't think the G# fits so nicely in the B part.
# Posted on July 5th 2009 by Quarter Irish
Mackilmoyle's
Tell us more, like where you got it.
Fiddler Graham Townsend recorded this as "Galop de Malbaie" and believed that Canadian Joe Bouchard composed it. According to Donna Hinds (who also calls it "Mackilmoyle Reel"), it is "very popular at New England dances" (this info from her book The Grumbling Old Woman).
# Posted on July 5th 2009 by nigelg
Abcs for La Galop de Malbaie from JC's tune finder
no G#s in this version.....
cheers,
Trish
X: 1
T:La Galop de Malbaie
S:Dominique Renaudin <domren:free.fr> QueTrad 2002-11-12
O:Québec
R:reel
Q:1/4=200
M:4/4
L:1/8
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Contra/reel/ReelDeLaMalbaie_1.abc 2009-07-05 19:37:13 UT
K:D
DF Ad fd fd | cd ec df dA | FA FA GB GB | FA FA EA EA |
DF Ad fd fd | cd ec df dA | FA FA GB GB | Ac ec d4 :|
|: Ac ef ge ce | de fg aa fd | Ac ef gf gb | af ge fa fd |
Ac ef ge ce | de fg af ge | fd ec dB AG | FA Bc d4 :|
# Posted on July 5th 2009 by mandolala
Accent is different for Galope de Malbaie
Starts on the half measure. Can't remember which is which.
# Posted on July 6th 2009 by vonnieestes
Galope de Malbaie
Nice! Link to IdentitAIRS Québécois:
http://www.mustrad.udenap.org/tounes/TQ026_Galope%20de%20La%20Malbaie.html
There are 2 nice samples, the midi and the dots...
# Posted on July 9th 2009 by Carabus
quarter irish -
the g# at first seemed odd to me, but everyone i've played this tune with has played it that way. i think it's more dramatic with the sharp there, as it creates a major 7th chord. to leave it as a g natural leaves the chord the same for that measure and the preceding one, and (especially with accompaniment) and it feels more static.
nigelg -
i learnt it from donna hinds about ten or eleven years ago, i just used the alternate punctuation here. i've seen the title writtten out both ways.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by nedward