Parallel Play - latest addition - Niely Cleere's Polka

[Jody Kruskal]

Cindy and I have been having some more fun, so here's a zippy little Irish
polka on autoharp and concertina we recorded over JamKazam. Aren't modal
tunes just so compelling? We love them!

https://soundcloud.com/parallel_play2020/niely-cleeres-polka

[Isel]

Lovely again Jody!☺️

[David Barnert]

Great tune! I’d never met it before. And a lovely performance.

 

In the comments on the SoundCloud page, you say:

 

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D modal, with C naturals in there, although I think our arrangement also has some C#'s

 

Indeed, you and Cindy both play a C# in the descending pattern in the next to last measure of both the A and B sections. I looked up the tune on the session.org and most of the transcriptions there have a D at that point in the tune, but I like it better with the C#, the way you guys play it. Mixolydian, schmixolydian.

[Jody Kruskal]

Thanks Isel.

 

David, right you are. I learned this tune in a wild and noisy session in the Camp House at Pinewoods long ago from a very young Emily Troll, back when she was on crew. So, I'm playing it from ear and memory, not dots. Interestingly, I played it for Emily many years later and she claims to have never known the tune. Go figure!