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Folie a Amphion

The archive preserves July and November 1947 claims for Folie à Amphion, offering a comparison within Django's electric period. Listen for the contour of a recurring guitar phrase and how the clarinet occupies the neighbouring register.

If you study one thing

Transcribe the rhythm of one short guitar response without pitches.

A Django-like guitarist and clarinetist perch on two large angular stone blocks while a third musician attempts to balance an absurdly small music stand. A witty rehearsal puzzle, no mythological costume.
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
Illustration credits
Chart keyNot established
FormNot established
FeelFollow the selected recording and its phrasing
MeterCheck the actual arrangement; no metre inferred from its title
MusicDjango Reinhardt
Guide coverage8 / 12 sections present

Owner content reviewed — 2026-10-21T01:13:19Z by admin. Coverage measures presence, not accuracy. Content review does not certify rights or musical perfection.

See what is here and what is missing
  • ✓ Recording evidence
  • ○ Key & form
  • ○ Chart
  • ✓ History
  • ✓ Playing notes
  • ✓ Practice plan
  • ○ Backing track
  • ✓ Django recording
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  • ✓ Illustration
  • ✓ Sources
  • ✓ Difficulty

Django's Recordings

Django recordings for this tune. Uploader dates and take labels remain source claims; only an evidenced exact association enables a row’s Listen control.

2 historical recording entries · source text preserved
EntryYearRecording / session / release evidenceListen
011947Folie a Amphion,ST 2089-3 ,"Fremeaux FA 314, Classics 1001,Verve 835 418-1","6/7/47 - Paris - QHCF - Django Reinhardt (elg), Hubert Rostaing (cl), Joseph Reinhardt (g), Ladislas Czabanyck (b), Andre Jourdan"—
021947Folie a Amphion,"Fremeaux FA 315, Vogue 228E 6008, Vogue 668003-3, Kardum GLO 139","8-13/11/47 - Paris - Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt - Django Reinhardt (elg), Gerard Leveque (cl), Eugene Vees (g), Emmanuel Soudieux (b), Andre Jourdan (d)"—

A dash means no video has been associated with this exact historical recording. Tune-level listening resources remain available above.

History & Listening

The archive preserves July and November 1947 claims for Folie à Amphion, offering a comparison within Django's electric period.

Tune details

Music: Django Reinhardt

Documented in archive: 1947

Original key: Not established

Study level: Intermediate listening study; advanced source and arrangement awareness

Melody & head

  • Listen for the contour of a recurring guitar phrase and how the clarinet occupies the neighbouring register.
  • Different issue dates and upload labels do not establish that two videos contain different takes.

Historical context and listening task ↗

Listen for the contour of a recurring guitar phrase and how the clarinet occupies the neighbouring register. Source-attributed credits: Django Reinhardt in the publisher track lists.

Chart & Form

Establish the actual melody and harmonic arrivals before choosing substitutions. Transcribe the rhythm of one short guitar response without pitches. Play it on one string, then restore only the pitches you can hear confidently.

No verified complete chart or concert key is supplied. Any inherited raw notation is retained without silently repairing it.

No readable chord chart has been added for this title.

Play along

No backing track has been added.

Study Django's Solo

Performed studies, transcriptions, TAB, notation and lessons for studying Django’s solo. Inclusion does not certify note-for-note accuracy.

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Similar tunes

Follow a shared key, a harmonic idea or a familiar form. Keys refer to this site’s chart editions; other recordings may use a different key.

Related chord movement

No sufficiently supported harmonic comparison has been added yet.

Same chart key

No match is established in the current chart metadata.

Same form

No match is established in the current chart metadata.

Behind the illustration

This image is an editorial illustration; a connection to this recording has not been established.

Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood; not a documented historical scene.

Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia

Illustration credits & provenance →

Notable Gypsy Jazz Performances

Selected performances by notable Gypsy Jazz players and ensembles. Inclusion is editorial and does not imply an objective popularity ranking.

Improvisation

Target notes & voice leading

  • Listen for the contour of a recurring guitar phrase and how the clarinet occupies the neighbouring register.
  • Sing the destination note before playing an approach; establish the harmony before assigning a scale.

Pitch choices

  • Establish the actual harmony before choosing a scale. Begin with the melody and the destination note; no tune-wide scale formula is asserted.

Transcribe the rhythm of one short guitar response without pitches. Play it on one string, then restore only the pitches you can hear confidently.

Comping & voicings

Keep a short, quiet accompaniment pattern beneath the lead, and stop it at the phrase's release.

Voicing note sets

  • Keep a short, quiet accompaniment pattern beneath the lead, and stop it at the phrase's release.

Keep the accompaniment clear

  • First rehearse the specific phrase entry and release described above; add a chord pulse only when it supports that phrase.
  • Different issue dates and upload labels do not establish that two videos contain different takes.

Practice room

Begin short phrase work around 60–90 quarter-note BPM; adapt to the verified source

Your assignment

Transcribe the rhythm of one short guitar response without pitches. Play it on one string, then restore only the pitches you can hear confidently.

Loop these changes

  • Transcribe the rhythm of one short guitar response without pitches. Play it on one string, then restore only the pitches you can hear confidently.
  • Keep a short, quiet accompaniment pattern beneath the lead, and stop it at the phrase's release.

Metronome

Use a quiet quarter-note click for short loops. Keep the preceding rest and the next entry in the loop; remove the click briefly to test internal time.

Transposition

  • After learning the chosen fragment and its actual harmony, move that fragment to one nearby key by naming the target notes. Do not transpose an unverified progression.

At the session

Confirm the composition identity, concert key and complete arrangement before calling the tune. Agree pickup and ending together.

Start together

  • Use the chosen recording’s entry cue only after checking its phrase length.

Finish together

  • Agree a plain final arrival and a visible cutoff; do not assume a live video’s tag is universal.

Different issue dates and upload labels do not establish that two videos contain different takes.

  • Different issue dates and upload labels do not establish that two videos contain different takes.

Arranging the tune

Solo guitar

Begin with the melody alone, then add only independently established bass arrivals. Keep a short, quiet accompaniment pattern beneath the lead, and stop it at the phrase's release.

Trio or larger group

Keep a short, quiet accompaniment pattern beneath the lead, and stop it at the phrase's release.

Vocal considerations

Follow the song’s breathing where a vocal version exists. Establish the singer’s key independently; lyrics are not reproduced here.

Sources & credits

This player guide combines inherited recording evidence and editorial study notes. Musical study notes are editorial suggestions; compare them with the recording.

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Illustration credit & provenance

Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia

Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood; not a documented historical scene.

Generated with the native image-generation tool on 2026-10-21; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.

Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Asset: one original Djangopedia tune illustration, landscape 1536x1024, 3:2. Title context, do not write any words: Folie a Amphion. Scene: A Django-like guitarist and clarinetist perch on two large angular stone blocks while a third musician attempts to balance an absurdly small music stand. A witty rehearsal puzzle, no mythological costume. Style: witty 1950s cartoon serigraph. Confident chunky contours; simplified flat separate ink shapes; lively mildly exaggerated adult head/hand proportions, humorous posture, strong asymmetric composition. Dry, graphic and unsentimental. Limited palette: deep navy, vermilion, sage and unprinted cream. Controlled screen-print misregistration, occasional dry ink texture and generous clean paper; no gradients or glossy digital shading. Faces: Django-like guitarist uses documented swept-back dark hair, small pencil moustache and expressive mature face; early guitar-banjo scenes use a younger adult. Supporting musicians are distinct individuals in historically informed 1920s–1940s Paris jazz-circle clothing. No ethnic caricature, racial stereotypes or costumes. Faces, instrument bodies and hands remain within frame, with convincing basic instrument anatomy. No text, letters, numerals, notation, logos, watermark, decorative border, photorealism, dreamy sunset, hearts or romantic haze. Imagined editorial scene, not a documented event. Entirely original composition; do not reproduce any artist's existing print.

Research & rights notes
  • Different issue dates and upload labels do not establish that two videos contain different takes.
  • No new exact recording_ref mapping is asserted. Recording rows and matrix/take claims are preserved as inherited evidence.
  • Complete chart, concert key and full form remain unverified. Practice tasks do not substitute for a chart.
  • No qualifying tune-specific backing confirmed in the bounded search.
  • No confidently identified complete performed Django solo study selected. Score-following studies are labelled separately.