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The International

reel

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on April 23rd 2002 by donnchad.

This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: International, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
ED || CE ~E2 G2 eg | fedB cBcA | GFEG A2 Gc |
ecAG ECCD | CE ~E2 G2 eg | fedB cBcA |
G2 EG (3ABc GE |1 FEDF EFDE :|2 FEDF EC C2 ||
c2 ~c2 gcgb | ad ~d2 eEED | CEG^G AF ~F2 |
EGAc ecAB | c2 ~c2 gcgb | ad ~d2 eEED |
CEGE FEDc |1 Bg^fg ecAB :|2 Bg^fg ec c2||

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The International sheetmusic
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This is on the same sheet of music that the K Burke version of the Congrees is. As for the key - I'm sure its modal but not sure which one so PLEASE correct it if you know. As my abc is in its infancy i couldnt figure a way to show that the correct notation for the combination c2 ~c2. ~c2 can be a one note triplet.

# Posted on April 23rd 2002 by donnchad

Wow, this a super great & super rare tune, Yeah it's in C major, nice post

# Posted on April 23rd 2002 by B Rad

Here I was all excited - hoping for a nice reel setting of the Internationale. Different tune, though... :)

# Posted on April 23rd 2002 by Jon Kiparsky

Brian Conway plays this tune in a set
International/Martin Wynn's #1/Martin Wynn's #2
it's on the 'Apple in Winter' album that he did with Tony DeMarco & Cesar Pacifi, again mighty good tune!!

Maybe Martin used to play this tune as Brian learned quite a bit from him, as far as I can remember the only person out of NY I've ever heard play this was Tina Lech (Boston) so maybe it's one of those NY tunes (Tina learned from many people with close ties to NY) If you ever get the chance to hear Tina Lech play *LISTEN* she's excellent, and quite nice as well. Come to think of it - this tune has a very Larry Redican feel to it.

# Posted on April 25th 2002 by B Rad

Composed in the 1950`s

This tune was jointly composed by Liam Donnelly,a fiddle player and Sean McGuire.

# Posted on March 11th 2004 by cos

D major

I've come back to this tune after years,

I was playing earlier today & started playing it in D major - makes it more social & it fits well.

# Posted on August 19th 2008 by B Rad

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