Annotation:Calgary Polka: Difference between revisions

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CALGARY POLKA. AKA and see "Gaudet Polka." American; Polka. USA, Texas. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BCAA'. Calgary, Alberta, was named in 1876 by Colonel MacLeod, after his boyhood home, "a little inlet on the sparsely populated island of Mull, with a few grey cottages and one big house" (Matthews, 1972). The word is Norse in origin and may have meant an enclosure for calves.

Source for notated version: Mark O'Connor [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 337.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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+'''CALGARY POLKA'''. AKA and see "Gaudet Polka." American; Polka. USA, Texas. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BCAA'. Calgary, Alberta, was named in 1876 by Colonel MacLeod, after his boyhood home, "a little inlet on the sparsely populated island of Mull, with a few grey cottages and one big house" (Matthews, 1972). The word is Norse in origin and may have meant an enclosure for calves.
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