Brian Boru’s March ✧
A stately three-part march, moving from a low refrain to ringing upper-octave answers.
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Sheet music
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A · first ending
A · second ending
B · first ending
B · second ending
C · first ending
C · final ending
D whistle · A dorian · 6/8 · 85 BPM · + upper octave
Closed holeOpen holeHalf hole+Upper octave
A · first ending
A · second ending
B · first ending
B · second ending
C · first ending
C · final ending
About this tune
Brian Boru’s March is named for the Irish king Brian Boru. The melody appears in nineteenth-century collections; its title does not establish that it was played in his lifetime.
Versions circulate with different numbers of parts. Here a low refrain leads into a rising second part and an upper-octave third part, all carried by two broad pulses per bar.