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Phroinsias'

mazurka

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on January 15th 2003 by ScottC.

This tune has been added to 28 tunebooks.

Also known as Francie Mooney's, The Glenties, Mooney's Mazurka., Phroinsias Ó Mhaonaigh's, Vincent Campbell's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

25 Years Of Celtic Music (Disc 2) by Various Artists
Bad Turns And Horse-Shoe Bends by Harry Bradley
Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 10 by Matt Cunningham
Dratsville by Greanstalk
Foinn Seisiun 1 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
Irish Fiddle Solos by Pete Cooper
Roguery Road by Jason O'Rouke And Ruadhrai O'Kane
Shatter The Calm by Dan Beimborn
The Brass Fiddle: Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal by Various Artists
The Humours Of Lewisham, Volume Three by Aidan Crossey
The Silver Spire by Karen Tweed
Threads Of Time by Cherish The Ladies

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This version from Fiddlesticks

This is the second mazurka from the set on the Fiddlesticks CD entitled "Two Mazurkas". (See previous post under this title). Easy to play but they make a good set with Sonny's mazurka in D.

# Posted on January 15th 2003 by ScottC

Vincent Campbell's Mazurka

This is the other Vincent Campbell mazurka - the first was posted last year at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1276. Most mazurkas I've heard always seem to be strong on melody and make a nice change between the reels and jigs at a session - at least once during the night!

# Posted on February 12th 2004 by Bannerman

The beginning sounds alot like St. Anne's.
http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/103

# Posted on February 12th 2004 by Aiki

Previously submitted to this site some time ago as the first of two mazurkas entitled "Phroinsias" as played on the cassette "Fiddlesticks", played by Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Phroinseas O'Maonaigh. No doubt this is where the person who submitted it got the name from so I am pleased if the name given here is the correct one and will amend my copy accordingly.
This notation is only very slightly different from mine in bars 3 & 4. the notes being, quaverquaver (joined), crotchet, quaverquaver(joined). Each bar accordingly. Sorry have not learned how to do ABC yet. Bar 5 I have as DBD BD. Does that make sense? hope so. The second Phroinseas tune is very similar to Tommy People Mazurka.

# Posted on February 14th 2004 by hetty

It also appears on Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy's "Ceol Aduaidh." The second one of Mazurkas Phroinsias Ui Mhaonaigh (Francie Mooney's).

# Posted on February 14th 2004 by slainte

I accept that the third and fourth bars are different to Altan's version but I got this setting some years ago from Siobh�n Peoples and I prefer her version - it's just a case of personal preference.

# Posted on February 15th 2004 by Bannerman

Trebling - another fiddler's way with it

# Posted on July 28th 2004 by ceolachan

& with that 'V' (Varsovienne) emphasis:

# Posted on July 28th 2004 by ceolachan

Another variation

Thanks to ceolachan for putting this into ABCs for me, as I don't know how! This is the version I have, but unfortunately, I have no idea whatsoever, how I came to have this B part. I don't know where I got the tune from; it must have got into my head by osmosis from somewhere, and I may have learned the B part this way, or altered it by not remembering the B part accurately - I really don't know. So if anyone does know this version, please let me know where from! It sounds like a variation on the tune given here, anyway.

|de fe dB|A2 F2 A2|B2 G2 B2|A2 F2 A2|
fg fe dB|A2 F2 A2|B2 d2 c2|d4 A2|
de fe dB|(3ABA F2 A2|(3BcB G2 B2|(3ABA F2 A2|
fg fe dB|A2 F2 A2|(3GAG F2 G2|F6|

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by Nell

And here's the B part!

Sorry - only pasted half of it into the last post...

|AB de fg|a2 f2 a2|g2 e2 g2|fg fe dB|
AB de fg|a2 f2 a2|g2 f2 g2|f6|
AB de fg|(3aba f2 a2|(3gag e2 g2|fg fe dB|
AB de fg|a2 f2 a2|g2 e2 c2|d6||

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by Nell

And to further complicate matters...

I've just realised that the version given here isn't quite my version, as it incorporates variations made by piper Colman Connolly. Anyway, there you go - variations on variations! :-)

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by Nell

- another mad version of this -

I've found this in this higher register also, in various forms, here's one with some 'play' in it:

d>e|f2 f>e d>B|A2 F2 A2|B2 G2 B2|A>F A2 d>e|
f2 f>e d>B|(3ABA F>A F>A|B2 c>B A2|d3 A d>e|
f>A (3gfe d>B|A2 F2 A2|(3BcB G>B G>B|A2 F>A d>e|
f2 f>e d>B|A2 (3FGA F>A|B2 c>B A>c|d4 (3Ade|
|f>A d>f a>f|g>f g2 A>c|e>A c>e g>e|f>A d>F A>d|
f2 (3Adf a>f|g4 A>c|e2 e>g f>e|d4 (3Ade|
f2 f2 a>f|g2 g2 A>c|e2 e2 g>e|f2 f2 A>d|
f>A d>f (3agf|g>f e>d c>B|A>G F>E D>C|D4||

naff ending...and I think once would be enough, the last time through a set maybe...

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by ceolachan

Scotch schnapps

There's a connection with the English song Blow The Wind Southerly, as became evident to me when a piano accordion player, relatively new to Irish music, played the air to that song as a waltz, at The Adelaide in London a few weeks ago.

I usually play this mazurka in D, I think. But that might well just be by association with St. Annes Reel, to which, as Aiki points out, it is also related (not just the beginning - all the way through). It could sound nice with a few Scotch snaps thrown into the A-part - or perhaps more 'Ulster snaps', since the Donegallers tend to play them less snappy than the Scots:

You could probably fit some into the B-part as well, but knowing that the placement of snaps can be a sensitive issue, I'll save myself the possible embarrassment of misusing them.

# Posted on April 30th 2007 by granama

"Phroinsias Ó Mhaonaigh's" ~ duplication rescue

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on December 5th 2007 by OsvaldoLaviosa.
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Phroinsias Ó Mhaonaigh's mazurka (2)

From "Ceol Aduaidh" by Mairead Nì Mhaonaigh & Frankie Kennedy, track 2, 2nd tune

# Posted on December 5th 2007 by OsvaldoLaviosa

# Posted on December 5th 2007 by ceolachan