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Description:
French
settlers brought music with them when inhabiting what is now
Quebec
and other areas throughout Canada. Since the arrival of
French music
in Canada, there has been much intermixing with the
Celtic music
of Anglo-Canada.
French-Canadian folk music is generally performed to accompany dances such as the
jig
,
jeux dansé
,
ronde
,
cotillion
, and
quadrille
. The
fiddle
is perhaps the most common instrument utilized and is used by virtuosos such as
Jean Carignan
,
Jos Bouchard
, and
Joseph Allard
. Also common is the German diatonic
accordion
, played by the likes of
Philippe Bruneau
and
Alfred Montmarquette
,
spoons
,
bone
, and
jaw harps
.
French
immigrants to Quebec established their musical forms in the future province, but there was no scholarly study until
Ernest Gagnon
's 1865 collection of 100 folk songs. In 1967,
Radio-Canada
released
The Centennial Collection of Canadian Folk Songs
(much of which was focused on French-Canadian music), which helped launch a revival of Quebec folk. Singers like
Yves Albert
,
Edith Butler
, and, especially,
Félix Leclerc
and
Gilles Vigneault
, helped lead the way. The 1970s saw purists like
Le Rêve du Diable
and
La Bottine Souriante
continued the...
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