Buddy Furey's Polka

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 Theme code Index    3142 3125L
 Also known as    Buddy Fury's Polka, Polca Bhodaí Uí Fhoirréidh
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Polka
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Mixolydian
 Time signature    2/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Brendan Breathnach
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 3
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 71, p. 35
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1985
 Artist    Biography:Martin Mulvihill
 Title of recording    Martin Mulvihill
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Green Linnet Records SIF 1012
 Year recorded    1978
 Media    
 Score   ()   


BUDDY FUREY'S/FURY'S POLKA (Polca Bhodaí Uí Fhoirréidh). Irish, Polka. A Mixolydian (Breathnach): A Major (Black, Mulvihill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Buddy Fury was a musician from County Limerick; the title is Mulvihill's, from the first musician he heard play the tune.

Source for notated version: the late fiddler Martin Mulvihill (Bronx, New York) [Black, Breathnach].

Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 328, p. 175. Breathnach (CRE III), 1985; No. 71, p. 35. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 7, p. 113 (appears as "Buddy Fury's Polka").

Recorded source: Green Linnet Records SIF 1012, "Martin Mulvihill" (1978).


X:1
T: Buddy Furey's
S: M. Mulvihill
Q: 250
R: polka
Z:Transcribed by Bill Black
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: A
e/d/ | cA A/B/c/A/ | dB Be/d/ | cA A/B/c/A/ | BE Ee/d/ |
cA A/B/c/A/ | dB Be/d/ | cA/c/ BE | A2 A :|
B | ce ee | f>g a/f/e/d/ | ce ec | B>c d/c/B/A/ |
ce ee | f>g a/f/e/d/ | cA/c/ BE | A2 A :||

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