Le retour des hirondelles - French Waltz | Katy Adelson

Here is a fun French waltz called, “Le retour des hirondelles,“ or, “Return of the Swallows“ in English. I believe it was composed by Beniamino Pagano and Robert Trognée. I have often heard it played in the key of C, but I moved it to D to make it easier to play on the violin (more open strings!). It’s definitely not a very straight-forward tune to play on a violin since it has a lot of accidentals, but I tried to make it work. I’ve been pretty hooked to this piece ever since I heard it a few years ago -- there is something about songs with a lot of chromatic accidentals that I really love for some reason. It’s almost like they can toss the concept of a key signature out the window with all the accidentals, yet still sound like the right key. It’s great! I want to learn how to write songs like that! I mostly wanted to attempt to make a video of this song because I saw a TON of swallows flying around one day, as well as little baby swallows -- SO CUTE!!! I finished my Covid vaccine doses. I’m not going to