Origins: Lil Judique / Judique Jig / Judique Flyer

Subject: Lil Judique -- origins?
From: GUEST,MAG
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:52 AM

The fiddle player showed uip at (contra) band practice with copies of this tune on Sunday. The tune is OK, but she knows nothing about it, where it came from, how it got its name, so I'm coming back to the well.

I'm just a tad nervious playing this without context.

Any help appreciated.

MAG

Subject: RE: Lil Judique -- origins?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:58 AM

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/251


Don't know if this is it, MAG. If so, there is some info if you click "COMMENTS" on the page the link opens to.

Subject: Tune Add: JUDIQUE JIG / JUDIQUE FLYER
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 11:23 AM

If indeed that is the tune you are seeking info about, the title is "The Judique Jig".

' JUDIQUE JIG [1], THE. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard. AABB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987). Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 179, pg. 71. WMT002, Wendy MacIsaac – "That's What You Get" (1998?).

X:1

T:Judique Jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
K:A
c2d|"A"efec2d|"A"|efe cAc|"D"dcd BGE|"Bm"d3 "E7"dcd| "A"efe "A7"ce=g|

"D" fef "Bm"dfa|"E"gbg "E7"gfg"A"| "A" a3 :|
|a2e|"A"agf edc|"Bm"Bcd "E7"f2d|"A"cde "F#"a2e|"Bm"d2e"E7" fdg |

"A"agf edc|"Bm"Bcd fga|"E"efe dcB|"A"A3:||'



It seems alternately to be called "The Judique Flyer".

Subject: RE: Lil Judique -- origins?
From: mooman
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 12:27 PM

Judique is a small village on the north coast of Cape Breton. There are some very fine musicians there and I have spent several happy hours on a couple of separate trips making music there in the past.

I think the tune Peace has posted is probably the one you are after MAG.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Lil Judique -- origins?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:38 PM

I'm just a tad nervious playing this without context.

Wanting to know something about a tune makes sense to me - but why "nervous"?

Subject: RE: Lil Judique -- origins?
From: GUEST,MAG
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 02:14 AM

Yep, that's it, Peace. Thanks, Peace, and all.

I'm probably compulsive, McGrath; I like to know something about what I play. Maybe it's being a librarian, and a storyteller. I learn as much as I possibly can about any story I tell; cultural context, variations over time. The title is French; it's nice to know it is Cape Breton, and there is a town there named Judique.

Sometimes people ask us about what we play. (novel; yes?) I think it shows respect for the material to have some idea where it came from; what people made it.

Now, if I can just get them to say "Bastrangue," as "bastrang," as in "meringue," and not "Bastrangay." I'm in another band where the flute player is a languages instructor, and I can't convince them.

Subject: RE: Lil Judique -- origins?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 11:07 AM

Did you ever read "Babbit"?

Just between you, me and the fencepost, Babbit had an affair with a sexy lady named Tanis Judique.