INSTRUMENTATION Conductor Score .................................................................... 1 Violin I ................................................................................... 8 Violin II.................................................................................. 8 Viola....................................................................................... 5 Cello....................................................................................... 5 String Bass ............................................................................ 5 Program Notes La Betaille (You Little Wild Thing) is a traditional fiddle waltz popular in Acadian or Cajun music. The legend is that “Little Wild Thing” has red hair and green eyes, fell out of a tree, and causes trouble wherever she goes. This arrangement of the song by acclaimed fiddler, Darol Anger, derives from the playing and singing of another great fiddler, Michael Doucet, founder of the Cajun band, Beausoleil, and probably the foremost proponent of Cajun culture and music of the 20th century. La Betaille was performed and recorded by Darol and Michael’s influential vernacular string quartet, Fiddlers 4, in their eponymous Compass Records 2000 release. This version references Darol’s arrangement from that recording, but features all the instruments playing the melody and a dramatic punchy coda. Notes to the Conductor La Betaille (You Little Wild Thing) is a traditional fiddle waltz popular in Acadian or Cajun music. As a fiddle tune, it should be interpreted as dance music, with a steady, insistent pulse. Much traditional fiddle music employs alternating major and minor thirds in a very specific, internally consistent pattern, and your arranger has adhered faithfully to that pattern. Courtesy accidentals are employed throughout to clarify these variations. A DIVISION OF Le Betaille (You Little Wild Thing) (An Acadian Waltz, Inspired by Michael Doucet) Traditional Arranged by Darol Anger Grade Level: 3 Please note: Our band and orchestra music is now being collated by an automatic high-speed system. The enclosed parts are now sorted by page count, rather than score order. Preview Only Legal Use Requires Purchase
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instrumentation
Conductor Score .................................................................... 1Violin I ................................................................................... 8Violin II .................................................................................. 8Viola ....................................................................................... 5Cello ....................................................................................... 5String Bass ............................................................................ 5
Program notes
La Betaille (You Little Wild Thing) is a traditional fiddle waltz popular in Acadian or Cajun music. The legend is that “Little Wild Thing” has red hair and green eyes, fell out of a tree, and causes trouble wherever she goes. This arrangement of the song by acclaimed fiddler, Darol Anger, derives from the playing and singing of another great fiddler, Michael Doucet, founder of the Cajun band, Beausoleil, and probably the foremost proponent of Cajun culture and music of the 20th century. La Betaille was performed and recorded by Darol and Michael’s influential vernacular string quartet, Fiddlers 4, in their eponymous Compass Records 2000 release. This version references Darol’s arrangement from that recording, but features all the instruments playing the melody and a dramatic punchy coda.
notes to the Conductor
La Betaille (You Little Wild Thing) is a traditional fiddle waltz popular in Acadian or Cajun music. As a fiddle tune, it should be interpreted as dance music, with a steady, insistent pulse. Much traditional fiddle music employs alternating major and minor thirds in a very specific, internally consistent pattern, and your arranger has adhered faithfully to that pattern. Courtesy accidentals are employed throughout to clarify these variations.
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Le Betaille (You Little Wild thing)(an acadian Waltz, inspired by michael Doucet)
Traditional
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Grade Level: 3
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