The Old Donegal Mazurka
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Old Donegal Mazurka", also known as<br> "Charlie Lennon's Mazurka", "Francie Mooney's Mazurka" or "The Irish Mazurka"<br> is an Irish mazurka from County Donegal in G Major. The parts are<br> played AABB (Carlin), AA'BB' (Phillips).<br> Mazurkas constitute a distinctive part of the traditional dance music of County Donegal.<br> The Polish dance entered the UK in the 1840s but is not widely played outside of Donegal.<br> This melody was recorded in May, 1937, in New York on a 78 RPM disc by Donegal<br> fiddler Hugh Gillespie (1906–1986). It was Gillespie's first recording session (although<br> he had been in the United States since 1928) and he was accompanied by a guitarist<br> named Mark Callahan for the session since he preferred the guitar to the usual piano<br> accompaniment of the era's Irish recordings. He was in demand as a sideman, played duets<br> with Michael Coleman on the radio and sometimes joined Packie Dolan's band as well as<br> his cousin, Jim Gillespie's, group. Jim Gillespie was an accordion player and the<br> band played regularly in a bar in a Polish neighborhood, where the audience liked to<br> hear mazurkas.<br> A variant of "The Old Donegal Mazurka" is the well-known<br> "Sonny's Mazurka".<br> It was printed in Carlin's Master Collection of Dance Music for the Violin (1984) and<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989).<br> It was recorded by John Doherty,<br> Hugh Gillespie on Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1992<br> reissue recording).<br>
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