Annotation:Dancing the Baby

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 DANCING THE BABY (Ag Rinnce An Leanb). Irish, Polka. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. O'Neill obtained this tune from a roll of manuscript music originally owned by an O'Mahony, a maternal relative of his, who lived in Dunmanway, County Cork. He thinks the staccata passages reminiscent of jockeying a child on a parent's knees.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 990, p. 170. O'Neill (1913), p. 125.  Recorded sources:

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