Sonny's Mazurka
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sonny's Mazurka", also known as "The Hag With The Fiddle", "Ó Brógáin’s",<br> "Sonny Ó Brógáin’s", "Garrett Barry's Mazurka" and "The Old Donegal" is an<br> Irish mazurka in 3/4 time and D Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> The tune is named for the late County Dublin accordion player Sonny Brogan (d.1966),<br> originally from Prosperous, County Kildare.<br> On “The Pipering of Willie Clancy” the tune is called "Garrett Barry's Mazurka".<br> Garrett Barry was an influential blind piper from Inagh, County Clare, born to the<br> Irish-speaking community at the height of the Great Famine in 1847.<br> Most renderings of this tune begin with a one beat pick-up measure which puts the<br> stress on the first beat of the measure as in a waltz. To be a true mazurka the stress<br> falls on the second beat (sometimes the third beat).<br> It has been recorded by Boys of the Lough, The Chieftains, Michael Flatley,<br> Willie Clancy and others.<br> I learned this at our Monday night jam.<br>
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