Key signature: Cdorian
Submitted on May 27th 2009 by lottiemaus.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Mary Clare, Mary Clare's, Mary Clare’s.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mary Claire
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cdor
|:dc|B2 FD B,DFD|EG,B,E G2 FE|DFBd f2 =ef|gf=eg fcAc|
B2 FD B,DFD|EG,B,E G2 FE|DFBd cBAc|B2 BA B2 :|
|:Bc|dcBd cBAc|dBFD B,DFD|EGFE DFBd|cBAG F2 Bc|
dcBd cBAc|[1dBFD B,DFD|EGFE DFBd|cAFA B2 :|
[2BdFB DFB,D|EGFE DFBd|cAFA B2||
Mary Claire
This is a hornpipe (in the Cape Breton style so, to my ears at least, played like a reel) by Jerry Holland and to be found in his “Collection of Fiddle Tunes” (1988, Cranford Publications) in more or less this form. This became a favourite for me from the playing of the Cape Breton Symphony in the 1980s.
I think this is in the key of Bb major and modes are not my strong point but I have selected Cdorian as the stated key on the strength of comments by joesmith here:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/12481/comments#comment254493
From a tune-learning point of view and especially if you’ve been concentrating on tunes in, say, D, G and A up to now, I think it’s a neat tune for getting your hand shape into the key of Bb but without having to worry about playing “high” Eb with your 4th finger on the A string yet (the only ones at that level are naturalised so you can play open E – bars 3 and 4). Having said that, the book version of the tune starts with a triplet “edc” rather than the “dc” quavers I’ve notated, so you would need a 4th finger for the Eb in that case.
# Posted on May 27th 2009 by lottiemaus