Au bois du Rossignolet (MS2011-3223-041)
Folk Songs, French--New England
Folk Songs, French--Québec (Province)
Franco-Americans--Music
Franco-Americans--New England
French-Canadians--New England
French-Canadians--Music
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223-041 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Pp. 35. “Au bois du rossignolet” (“In the Woods of the Nightingale”). This venerable French song has been in circulation since the beginning of the 1600s. It has been widely documented in France and Quebec, as well as New Brunswick, Ontario and Nova Scotia. This particular text is virtually identical to that published in abbé Charles-Émile Gadbois’s 1948 publication, Les 100 plus belles chansons (p. 43). In 1925, Montreal singer Charles Marchand recorded a version of this song for the Starr label (issue # 15210; matrix #1747). Marchand (1890-1930) founded a vocal quartet called “Le Carillon canadien” in order to promote French-Canadian folk songs and new songs inspired by traditional customs and settings. You can hear Marchand’s rendition on the Library and Archives Canada website, The Virtual Gramophone: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1007647385
VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3223 Alice Lacourse Danis Songbook. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America
Au cours de mes voyages [first line] (AU1998-1073-009)
Excerpt from interview of Alberta Gagné (TC1998-1073-009) by Martha Pellerin. Part of a project (VFC1998-0007) on Franco-American song in New England funded by the Vermont Folklife Center and undertaken by Pellerin. Interview is one in a series of six conducted between 1995-01-09 and 1995-12-06 as an effort to document the French language song repertoire of Gagné. “Au cours de mes voyages” (”Over the course of my travels“) is Montreal songwriter and translater Roméo Beaudry’s 1921 setting of Aloha ʻOe" (“Farewell to Thee”), a Hawaiian popular song written circa 1878 by Liliʻuokalani (1838-1917), who was then Princess of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is her most famous song and is a common cultural symbol for Hawaii. Parts of "Aloha 'Oe" resemble the song, "The Lone Rock by the Sea" and the chorus of George Frederick Root’s 1854 song, "There's Music in the Air.” "The Lone Rock by the Sea" mentioned was "The Rock Beside the Sea" published by Charles Crozat Converse in 1857, and itself derives from a Croatian/Serbian folk song, "Sedi Mara na kemen studencu” (Mary is Sitting on a Stone Well). In 1913, a Hawaiian ensemble called The Hawaiian Quintette recorded “Aloha Oe” in Hawaiian on the Victor label B-13113. English-language and English-Hawaiian renditions of the song soon followed, and by the 1920s, it was arguably the best-known Hawaiian song and had sparked an infatuation in the United States for songs on Hawiian themes. Roméo Beaudry (1882-1932) was, along with his friend Herbert Berliner, the most important producer of Canadian artists in the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, Beaudry’s Montreal-based Starr studio produced 693 francophone records, featuring almost every great name in Quebec lyric, folk and variety song with equal success. He was also a gifted song lyricist who translated and/or reimagined more than 150 French-language adaptations of hit American songs from the 1920s. He also composed original songs, of which more than 75 were recorded. Beaudry’s French-language lyrics for “Aloha Oe” have virtually no connection to the original Hawaiian text nor its English translation. As is often the case, he borrowed the melody, but his text represents a complete re-imagining. In 1921, Montréal baritone Hector Pellerin recorded the Beaudry transliteration under the title “Aloha oe” on the Starr label. Montréal baritone Jean Cartier recorded a second version of Beaudry setting in 1928 on the Starr/Compo label (issue # 15499, matrix # 3446). Alberta Gagné’s version presents the full set of lyrics from the Beaudry setting.
VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. TC1998-1073 interview with Alberta Gagné. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Full Interview: vfc1998-0005_tc1998-1073
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Vermont (state)
New England (general region)
Quebec (province)
Highgate Center (inhabited place)
Folk Songs, French--Quèbec (Province)
Song text from VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. MS2008-3096-053 Adelard Guay Songbook 1 of 1. Pp. 46-47.
VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. MS2008-3096 Adelard Guay Songbook 1 of 1. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Complete Manuscript: vfc1998-0007_ms2008-3096
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Au sang qu’un Dieu va répondre [first line] (MS2011-3089)
Looseleaf French language song text from VFC2011-0009 Desrosiers/Joyal Family Collection. MS2011-3089. Pp. 1.
Desrosiers/Joyal Family Collection -- VFC2011-0009. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Au temps jadis [first line] (AU1998-1071-006)
Excerpt from interview of Alberta Gagné (TC1998-1071-006) by Martha Pellerin. Part of a project (VFC1998-0007) on Franco-American song in New England funded by the Vermont Folklife Center and undertaken by Pellerin. Interview is one in a series of six conducted between 1995-01-09 and 1995-12-06 as an effort to document the French language song repertoire of Gagné. “Au temps jadis” (“In the old days”) is a song which originated in France, probably in the late 1800s or more likely in the early 1900s. The cataloguer has come across only two other versions: the first is a recording by the French Pyrenees traditional music trio Eths Bandolets, titled “L’ancienne méthode,” which includes an additional verse, recorded on their 2004 CD titled Drin de tot. The other version is a somewhat more distantly related song text of the same title from the VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. MS2008-3095-030 Irma Labonté Songbook 1 of 1, pp. 69-72.
VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. TC1998-1071 interview with Alberta Gagné. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Full Interview: vfc1998-0005_tc1998-1071
AU2010-3066 -- Camera Roll 1 / Sound Roll 1
Farm life--Vermont (LCSH)
Brick, Richard (Interviewer)
O’Donnell, Kenneth (Interviewee)
Richard Brick/Last Stand Farmer Collection -- VFC2003-0007. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Audio recordings copyright Richard Brick.
1 sound tape reel (Scotch 3M 208 polyester) : analog ; 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape, 1 1/2 mil.
Chelsea (inhabited place)
AU2010-3067 -- Camera Roll 2 / Sound Roll 2
Horses
Audio recording copyright Richard Brick.
AU2010-3068 -- Camera Rolls 3 and 4 / Sound Roll 3
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Farm sounds. Livestock bell, automobile, hinges, footsteps. Helen and Kenneth O'Donnell calling livestock. Pigs.
O’Donnell, Helen (Interviewee)
AU2010-3069 -- Camera Roll 5 / Sound Roll 4
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Helen and Kenneth O'Donnell picking squash from their garden and placing them into metal pails.
AU2010-3070 -- Camera Roll 6 / Sound Roll 5
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Helen and Kenneth O'Donnell picking beans from their garden. Near the end of the recording, Richard Brick asks some questions about crops.
AU2010-3071 -- Camera Roll 7 / Sound Roll 6
Sound Recording Content Ambient: automobile (Jeep), car door opening/closing, footsteps, loading vegetables (squash) into jeep. Interview: Brick asks questions about the car. Kenneth O'Donell discusses the economics of vegetable farming.
AU2010-3072-- Camera Rolls 8 and 9 / Sound Roll 7
Social change--Vermont (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Ambient : Unloading vegetables (squash). Freezer humming. Interview: Squash. Growing of vegetables--potatoes. Limited harvest of 1917. Economics of potato farming. Price per cord of wood. Social change in Vermont.
AU2010-3073 -- Camera Roll 10 / Sound Roll 8
Taxation (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Ambient: creaking door, footsteps. Interview: Property taxes, unused farm land, real estate, summer people, new people, selling land, Vermont politics (Thomas Paul Salmon).
AU2010-3074 -- Camera Rolls 10 and 11 / Sound Roll 9
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Automobile, metal pails/containters, airplane, collecting water from pond, insects, pigs.
AU2010-3075 -- Sound Roll 10, Wild Sound
Maple syrup (LCSH)
Food habits--Vermont (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: Meat consumption, foodways, maple syrup.
AU2010-3077 -- Camera Roll 30 / Sound Roll 30
AU2010-3078 -- Camera Roll 31 / Sound Roll 31
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses (LCSH)
Swine (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Pig slaughter and butchering. Knife sharpening, gun shot, water, metal pails, hair scraping. Interview: Economics of raising pigs. Details of butchering.
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Pig butchering. Engine, water, hair scraping, cutting, metal pail. Interview: Economics of farming.
AU2010-3080 -- Camera Roll 51 / Sound Roll 51
Fuelwood (LCSH)
Horses (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Ambient: Kenneth O'Donnell drawing cordwood from woods with draft horses and sled.
AU2010-3081 -- Camera Roll 52 / Sound Roll 52