Annotation:Seageant Stack’s Favorite

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X:1 T:Seageant Stack’s Favorite M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 241 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A A/B/|:c3 BcB|AGE GAB|c3 ede|e/f/ge a/g/ed| c3 BcB|AGE GAB|cBA GED|EAA A2:| |:A/B/|c/d/ef gfg|eaf ged/B/|c/d/ef gfg|eag a2 A/B/| c/d/ef gfg|eab age/d/|~c3 ~d3| eec dfe/d/:|

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SERGEANT STACK'S FAVORITE (Roga Maor Staic). Irish, Double Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AABB (O'Neill/Krassen). Musician and researcher Paul de Grae, in his notes to the O'Neill collections , suggests the tune is more playable in A dorian or with mixed accidentals. De Grae also remarks:

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The recurring feature of four notes in the time of three is carefully notated, and must have been a prominent feature of Stack's playing: see also Edward Cronin's setting of "Banish Misfortune" [MI 776, DMI 53], where this characteristic also occurs. It is still a feature of Sliabh Luachra music; and O'Neill writes that Stack "was born and brought up within a radius of a dozen miles or so of where the Counties of Kerry, Cork and Limerick come together" [IMM, p. 422), i.e., he was a Sliabh Luachra native.