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Theme code Index
5H1H2H1H 5H6H7H6H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Stephen Grier
Region
Ireland
Genre/Style
Irish
Meter/Rhythm
Polka
Key/Tonic of
C
Accidental
NONE
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/4
History
IRELAND(Connaught)
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Biography:Stephen Greir
Book/Manuscript title
Book:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection Book 3
Tune and/or Page number
No. 129, p. 45
Year of publication/Date of MS
c. 1883
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score (1 )
X:1
T:Polka [5]
T:Untitled
M:C
L:1/8
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 3, c. 1883, No. 129, p. 45)
N:An identical version (with one sharp in the key signature) can be found as No. 244, p. 71, Book 3 of his mss.
B:http://grier.itma.ie/book-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=44&z=-87.7365%2C171.7214%2C3718.5972%2C1548.5147
N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from
N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim.
F: https://manuscripts.itma.ie/grier/book-three/
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:C
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