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X:1
T:Sixpenny Money
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:D
fAA fAA|BAG FGE|DFA AFA|dfd e2d|
fAA AFA|BAG FGE|DFA AFA|dfd e2d:|
|:f3 gfg|afd fed|f3 gfg|afd e2d|
f3 gfg|afd edB|A2A AFA|dfd e2d:|
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. The tune was also recorded several times by piper Séamus Ennis. 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.
Recorded sources: -RTÉ RTECD 199, Séamus Ennis - "The Return from Fingal" (1997).
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
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