Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 7th 2004 by kjlowe.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Neily Cleere's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
FG | A2 A>B | =c/B/A FG | AB =c/B/A | G2 FG |
A>^G A>B | =c/B/A f2 | ed AF | G2 :|
|: fg | a>g fa | ge fg | a>g fa | g2 fg |
a>g fa | ge f2 | ed AF | G2 :|
Begley, Cooney & Bevan
Played by Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich (Button Accordion), Gerry Bevan (Fiddle), and Steve Cooney (Guitar) for the Baile Bhúirne (Ballyvourney) Reel set.
# Posted on June 7th 2004 by kjlowe
"Music for the Sets - the blue book"
Compiled by David J. Taylor
Dave Mallinson Publications, 1995
in association with Brooks Academy & Na Píobairí Uilleann
ISBN: 1-899512-33-0
http://www.mally.com/
On Clearance ~ http://www.mally.com/results.asp?CategoryID=33
Page 8: "Neily Cleere's"
Note: This melody is in G Major = both parts resolve on G and the c is natural...
# Posted on September 12th 2008 by ceolachan
As always the ears have it!!! ~ D Mixolydian
I shouldn't have gone with my eyes first, they didn't have it... I needed to play it as I know it, and it hangs on G, and doesn't quite resolve there. It resolves on D while it isn't Major with c natural as an accidental, D Mix it is...
# Posted on September 12th 2008 by ceolachan
"Neily Cleere's Polka" ~ another take...
X: 2
T: Neily Cleere's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmix
|: FG |\
A/B/A/^G/ AB | c/B/A F>G | AB c/B/A | GA/G/ FG |
A>^G AB | cA fg/f/ | ed A/G/F | G2 :|
|: f>g |\
a>g fa | ge fg | aa/g/ fa | ga/g/ fg |
a>g f/g/a | ge f2 | ed AF | G2 :|
# Posted on September 12th 2008 by ceolachan
Ears FIRST! Mea culpa!
# Posted on September 12th 2008 by ceolachan
Henrik Norbeck's transcription, for comparison, & 'respect!'
http://norbeck.nu/index.html
This file contains 100 polkas (#1 - #100).
http://norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnp0.abc
You can find more abc tune files at http://home.swipnet.se/hnorbeck/abc.htm
X: 98
T: no name
R: polka
Z: id:hn-polka-98
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmix
|: FG |\
A>A AB | cA FG | AB c/B/A | G2 FG |
A>A AB | cA fg | ed AF | G2:|
|: fg |\
a>g fa | ge fg | ag fa | g2 fg |
a>g fa | ge gf | ed AF | G2 :|
& many more fine tunes and transcriptions can be found there...
# Posted on September 12th 2008 by ceolachan
"McGreevey's Polkas #3"
This is the third in a set that Michael Cooney called "McGreevey's". Note the drop of a seventh in the A part and the different turn in the B:
X:3
T:McGreevy's Polka No. 3
T:Neily Cleere's
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:DMix
P:A
FG | A>G AB | cD FG | AB cA | GA/G/ FG |\
A>G AB | cA f>f | ed cA | G2 :|
P:B
fg | a>g f/g/a | ge fg | a>g f/g/a | g2 fg |\
a>g f/g/a | ge f>f | ed cA | G2 fg |\
a>g f/g/a | ge fg | a>g f/g/a | g2 fg |\
af ge | fd e^c | d^c AF | G2 |]**
# Posted on October 22nd 2011 by JSC_from_IL
Not "McGreevey's Polkas" after all
I owe you all a correction after a grand concert with Michael Cooney and Pat Egan and tionóilín afterward:
"McGreevey's" is a misnomer (my guess is a misremembered mishearing of "Neily Cleere's"). Piper Cooney got all three tunes from Neily himself and prefers to call them the "Slieve Arda Set."
# Posted on December 17th 2011 by JSC_from_IL