Annotation:Polka (39)
X:1 T:Polka [39] M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Polka S:Philip Carolan music manuscript collection N:Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910, Ballyvicmaha, County Mayo), a musically literate N:farmer and fiddler who compiled his ms. probably during 1863-1873. S:Angela Buckley, thesis, “A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of S:Philip Carolan c. 1839-1910, vol. 2”, Waterford Institute of Technology, S:2007, p. 7. Carolan ms. 1, No. 14 K:G dB gB|dc/B/ ce/A/|cA af|a(g/f/) (g/b/)d| dB gB|dc/B/ ce/A/|cA af/a/|gg gz:| |:dc ce|d/e/d db|c/d/c ca|B/c/d db| ec ca|d/e/d db|c/d/c ca/f/|gg gz:| |:(B/c/)d ed|gB ed|(B/c/)d ed|Bd A2| (B/c/)d ed|gB ed|(B/c/)d ec|ef g2:|
POLKA [39]. AKA and see "Royal Polka Quadrille - Figure 2," "Vienna Polka." Irish(?), Polka (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. An untitled polka of unknown provenance found in the c. 1863-73 music copybook of County Mayo farmer and fiddler Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910). The polka may have been copied from an unknown source and does not have a particularly Irish character. Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune cognate with "Vienna Polka" from Köhler’s Violin Repository Book 3 (1885, p. 264), and the untitled "Polka (39)" from Philip Carolan's ms.
