Annotation:Sixpenny Money

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SIXPENNY MONEY (Airgead Réalach). AKA and see “Madcap (The).” Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). D Major (Harker/Rafferty): D Mixolydian (Breathnach, Tubridy). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Mitchell): AABB (most versions). The title comes from County Clare piper Willie Clancy. Breathnach (1963) states that three hundred barrels of ‘sixpenny money’ were put up by Cliona when she was trying to win Seán ac Séamais from his wife, as told in the Munster Storyteller (Seanchaí Muimhneach).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Breathnach, Mitchell]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources : - Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 39, p. 16. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 205, p. 63. Mallinson (100 Essential), 1995; No. 98, p. 42. McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; p. 21. Mitchell (Dance Music of Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 18, p. 39. Sullivan (Session Tunes, vol. 2); No. 34, p. 14. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, Book Two), 1999; p. 36.

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