Quebec fiddle

Thus, cross tunings, drone notes and complex rhythms evolved to fill the gaps left in unaccompanied playing and this resulted in a highly developed style.

As with the French-speaking Cajun fiddle style, German button accordion created a fad which temporarily influenced the form, as did the eventual introduction of piano in the urban center Montreal.

For example, Lisa Ornstein's treatment of The Devil's Dream (Reel du Diable) emphasized double stop and rhythmic ornament seldom found in US interpretations.

Fiddle music, in general, lends itself well to group playing and percussive use of feet and hands, as in the performance of La Turlette at Kyneton, central Victoria, where the Celtic Southern Cross Summer School produced this ethnomusicologically notable clip.

Jean “Ti-Jean” Carignan (December 7, 1916, Lévis - February 16, 1988, Montreal) is perhaps the most famous Québécois fiddler since Allard.

He also learned the repertories from the Irish fiddler Michael Coleman, from whom he received most of his stylistic influence, and from Scotch fiddle player James Scott Skinner.