[Callers] Re: 40 Bar Tunes

On Jan 3, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Erik Hoffman via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: Those titles could be good leads, but beware that when a title is a associated with a 40-bar version of a tune, it may also be associated with versions of other lengths. For example, "The Snoring Mrs. Gobiel" (a/k/a ("[La] Ronfleuse Gobiel") is indeed commonly played as a 40-bar tune, as in the rendition by La Bottine Souriante at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLY38H9R0I However, the Traditional Tune Archive's page on the tune https://tunearch.org/wiki/Ronfleuse_Gobeil shows both 32-bar and 40-bar versions, the essential difference being that the B part is played only once in the 32-bar version and twice in the 40-bar version. The 32-bar version is almost identical to the one in _The New England Fiddler's Repertoire_ (at least in my second edition). I presume the editors of NEFR chose a 32-bar version to fit standard-length contras. The annotations at https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Ronfleuse_Gobeil also mention a version lacking the C part recorded by Jos Bouchard under the title "Reel St-Siméon" and a slightly crooked version recorded by Isidore Soucy under the title "Gigue des vieux souliers" (Old Shoes Jig). Unfortunately if a tune has been recorded in versions with different numbers of bars, the sample snippets at Amazon and other sites are often too short to reveal which version is being offered. --Jim