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Rodney's Glory / Napoleon Crossing the Alps

from Fiddle Music by Danny Diamond

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I first heard Rodney’s Glory played by Máirtín Byrnes, the great fiddle player and raconteur from Ahascragh, Co. Galway, who recorded it on his eponymous solo album Máirtín Byrnes (Leader Records, 1969). The tune is a set dance variant of Turlough Carolan’s air Miss McDermott (or The Princess Royal), while the title Rodney’s Glory relates to a song written by the Gaelic poet Eoghan Rua Ó Suilleabháin [1748-1782] and set to Carolan’s melody.

The second tune is one of many marches named in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte which are found across the Irish, Scottish, English, American and European folk music traditions- from Napoleon Crossing the Alps to the Scottish bagpipe march The Battle of Waterloo the American old-time variant Bonaparte’s Retreat. In addition to having similar titles, many of the tunes also have related melodies and may be derived from military marches of the Napoleonic era.

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from Fiddle Music, released July 1, 2014
Danny Diamond: Fiddles
Eoin Ó Beaglaoich: Accordion drones

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Danny Diamond Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fiddle player / composer / recording engineer / researcher with a background in Irish traditional music; currently based between Minneapolis, USA and Dublin, Ireland.

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