Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 5th 2003 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 63 tunebooks.
Also known as Little Old Man, The Little Old Man, Rambler's Hornpipe, The Rambler's Hornpipe, The Rambler's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Old French, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|d2cd BdAF|DFAd f2ed|cdef gece|defd A2(3ABc|
d2cd BdAF|DFAd f2ed|cdef gece|d2f2 d2:|
|:cd|efed c2A2|AEAc e2dc|BGBd gfed|cAce a2cd|
efed (3cdc A2|AEAc e2dc|bGBd gfed|c2A2 A2:||
From The New England Fiddler's Repertoire.
# Posted on January 5th 2003 by lazyhound
Old French
Isn't this originally a Quebecois reel?
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on January 7th 2003 by noelbats
Cross Breeding
I got this tune from Cleveland's Westside Contra Dance Club tunebook years ago. There seems to be some overlap between Quebec and New England. Hence the name "Old French" for a Quebecois reel appropriated by Yankee fiddlers. I doubt the French would have called it that.
# Posted on January 8th 2003 by AOG
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire" ~ Randy Miller
by Randy Miller & Jack Perron
2nd Edition, 2003, by Randy Miller & Robert Bley-Vroman
~ 96 pages, 168 classic traditional contra dance melodies...
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
http://www.randymillerprints.com/NEFRbook.htm
~ & YES! ~ There is a lot or traffic and influences between New England and the Canadian Maritmes, people, music and dance...not forgetting the fisheries and smuggling...
# Posted on May 13th 2006 by ceolachan
"Maritimes", where'd that 'i' disappear to?
# Posted on May 13th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Rambler's Hornpipe"
As is often the case in North America, sometimes the swing gets ironed out of a tune to fit it into the realm of the reel, but the practice of playing hornpipes flat and unswung is not solely the practice of American players. As is usually true, this tune is nice either way:
| (3ABc | d2 c>d B>dA>F | D>FA>d (3fgf e>d | c>de>f g>ec>e | d>fe>d (3BcB ~
# Posted on May 13th 2006 by ceolachan