Key: G
Form: Mazurka or Waltz
MP3: (played by Pam Bockes)
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Courtesy of Cranford Publications’ Jerry Holland, the Second Collection.
Sheet Music in PDF: Munster Cloak
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X: 1 T: Munster Cloak, The Z: Alastair Wilson S: https://thesession.org/tunes/1126#setting1126 R: waltz M: 3/4 L: 1/8 K: Gmaj |:G2 GA BG|A2 AB cA|G2 GA Bd|c2 A2 F2| G2 GA BG|A2 AB cA|d2 defd|c2 A2 F2:| g2- ga gf|d2 g2 a2|b2 a2 g2|f2 g2 a2| b2 a2 g2|f2 de fd|dc Ad cA|A2 G2 G2:|
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Source: Trad*
Genre/Style: Waltz or mazurka (also a song)
Other Tunes in Set:
Region: Ireland*
*Notes: A comment on TheSession.org: “Eamon Butler said that this was one of the oldest Irish mazurkas,and it was originally a Spanish melody.” (Possibly brought to Ireland in the 16th century by shipwrecked sailors from the Spanish Armand? Just a guess. –AJ)