The Brown Chest
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Brown Chest", in Gaelic "An Comhra Donn" or "An Cófra Donn" is also known as "The Brown Casket",<br> "Ó Murchú's Hornpipe", "O'Connor Donn's" or "The Star of Bethlehem" is an Irish hornpipe in D Major.<br> The parts are played AABB. <br> It is melodically similar (in the 'A' part) to "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine", "The Centenary March",<br> "Caledonian March" as well as the English "Durham Rangers" family of tunes.<br> The Chieftains have recorded tune twice, first as "An Comhra Donn" on their eponymous 1963<br> album and again in 1991 under the title "Ó Murchú's Hornpipe".<br> It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ 1 (1963), Carlin's English Concertina (1977), Sullivan's<br> Session Tunes, vol. 3, Taylor's Music for the Sets: Blue Book (1995), Vallely's Companion to<br> Irish Traditional Music (1999) (as "Humours of Tullycreen") and Vallely's Learn to Play the<br> Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club. <br> It was recorded by Martin Hayes on Martin Hayes (1993)(as "The Brown Coffin") and<br> The Chieftains on An Irish Evening (1991)(as "Ó Murchú's Hornpipe").<br>
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