Fete de Village is a country dance tune that’s been in the English tradition for well over 200 years, but it started life as music from a stage production of the same name by French composer Gossec. This production came to England in the 1780s, after which time this tune can be found in various English tune collections such as those of William Mittel and Thomas Hammersley as well as in the infamous 1785 ‘A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs’ by Aird (vol. II). Source: Trad Tune Archive
I’ve included a version of the tune by Bellowhead below, partially because it’s brilliant but also because it’s too late in the evening for me to record a video, I will remedy this tomorrow! *EDIT – there is now a video of the tune played at a medium speed below the Bellowhead video*
Here are the dots and downloads:
We played with the arpeggio patterns in the B section, building these up gradually and trying different inversions to create an automatic harmony. Brush up on your D and G major arpeggios, there will be more on this next week!
New Ealing Sessions 