========================================================== =================== NOTES ON TUNES in Bulmer & Sharpley's "Music from Ireland" (4 vols, 1974) Ng# represents tune index number(s) assigned by Alan Ng at http://www.irishtune.info S# represents index number(s) assigned at http://www.thesession.org These notes prepared by RWW Taylor ([email protected]), 5/25/2011 ========================================================== =================== "Music from Ireland, Volume 1" ~ Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley, 1974 ISBN: 0-9503784-02 Sally Gardens [Reel] ( B1,1 ) Ng#1720 S#98 Silver Spear [Reel] ( B1,2 ) Ng#1770 S#182 Sligo Maid [Reel] ( B1,3 ) Ng#1782 S#399 AKA: Glendoan Fancy McMahon's [Reel] ( B1,4 ) Ng#125 S#8 AKA: The Banshee by James McMahon O'Rourkes' [Reel] ( B1,5 ) Ng#2052 S#90 AKA: Sligo Chorus / The Wild Irishman Jackie Coleman's [Reel] ( B1,6 ) Ng#905 S#50 High Reel [Reel] ( B1,7 ) Ng#833 S#44 AKA: Dufy the Dancer St. Anne's [Reel] ( B1,8 ) Ng#1819 S#103 Originally a French Canadian tune O'Brien's [Reel] ( B1,9 ) Ng#305 S#2301 AKA: Mulvihill's / Sonny McDonagh's / Murphy's / Paddy Murphy's Wife by Charlie Mulvihill John Brennan's [Reel] ( B1,10 ) Ng#3394 S#404 AKA: Brennan's Fancy / John Brennan's Favorite / Dicky Sherlock's Sometimes played with parts reversed. Down the Broom [Reel] ( B1,11 ) Ng#540 S#514 Very similar to Ng#421 Crosses of Annagh (by Tommy Coen) Stoney Steps [Reel] ( B1,12 ) Ng#1839 S#571 Boys of Ballisodare, The [Reel] ( B1,13 ) Ng#206 S#535 AKA: The Dublin Lasses Mountain Road [Reel] ( B1,14 ) Ng#1350 S#68 by Michael Gorman Paddy Canny's [Reel] ( B1,15 ) Ng#711 S#1219 AKA: Eileen O'Callaghan's / Geehan's / Geoghegan’s / Grogan's Bunch of Keys, The [Reel] ( B1,16 ) Ng#245 S#344 Closely related to a number of other tunes, including Paddy on the Turnpike (Ng#791), Flowers of Limerick (Ng#648), Mills Are Grinding (Ng#2378) and The Groves Hornpipe (Ng#780) Dick Gossip [Reel] ( B1,17 ) Ng#505 S#408 AKA: The Castle Sometimes played with parts reversed Yellow Tinker [Reel] ( B1,18 ) Ng#552 S#1554 Title here is shared with a diferent tune Ng#2088, sometimes titled The Drunken Tinker. Road To Lisdoonvarna [Reel] ( B1,19 ) Ng#1683 S#249 AKA: All the Way to Galway This tune also can be played as a jig or slide Bucks of Oranmore [Reel] ( B1,20 ) Ng#241 S#2 AKA: Leitrim Bucks / The Hearty Bucks Morning Dew [Reel] ( B1,21 ) Ng#1340 S#69 AKA: The Hare in the Heather Sometimes played in four parts Knotted Cord [Reel] ( B1,22 ) Ng#1064 S#921 AKA: Bridie Morley's Favourite / The Bangor Reel / Junior Crehan's Reported to have been composed by John McGrath Turnpike Gate [Reel] ( B1,23 ) Ng#2654 S#3147 Killavil Fancy [Reel] ( B1,24 ) Ng#1033 S#575,1553 AKA: The Ten Pound Float / The £10 Float Kitty Goes A Milking [Reel] ( B1,25 ) Ng#1054 S#1647 AKA: Kitty's Gone A-Milking Nine Points to Roguery [Reel] ( B1,26 ) Ng#1424 S#429 AKA: Black Mare of Fanad, The Trip To Durrow [Reel] ( B1,27 ) Ng#1969 S#891 Conolon's Dream [Reel] ( B1,28 ) Ng#1869 S#1425 AKA: The Cork Lasses / Round the World for Sport / Sword in Hand This tune also goes by a variety of other titles. All Around the World [Reel] ( B1,29 ) Ng#2079 S#118 AKA: The Wise Maid / Doherty's Associated with John Doherty, but possibly not composed by him. Ash Plant, The [Reel] ( B1,30 ) Ng#88 S#1139 AKA: The Ash Plant No. 2 / Dicki Sherlock's / Maguire's / Jim Kelly's Not to be confused with the diferent reel Ash Plant No. 1 (in A dorian). Humours of Toomagh [Reel] ( B1,31 ) Ng#343 S#1644,2660 AKA: The Cloone Reel Sean sa Céo [Reel] ( B1,32 ) Ng#1750 S#177 AKA: John in the Fog / Lough Isle Castle / Jack and Jill Dublin Reel [Reel] ( B1,33 ) Ng#3348 S#384 AKA: Jim McCormick's / The Westmeath Hunt Also played in the key of D (Ng##554) Mamma's Pet [Reel] ( B1,34 ) Ng#1203 S#902 Notes on tunes in Bulmer & Sharpley's "Music from Ireland" RWWT 5/25/2011 page 2 Dan Breens [Reel] ( B1,35 ) Ng#217 S#999 AKA: The West Clare Reel Eileen Curran [Reel] ( B1,36 ) Ng#574 S#132 AKA: The Sailor's Return Humours of Ballyconell [Reel] ( B1,37 ) Ng#852 S#1428 Also played as a hornpipe. Farwell to Connaught [Reel] ( B1,38 ) Ng#604 S#981 AKA: John Bowe’s no. 2 Bean a'Ti ar Lar [Reel] ( B1,39 ) Ng#3577 S#1370 AKA: The Mistress on the Floor Killarney Boys of Pleasure [Reel] ( B1,40 ) Ng#1031 S#733 AKA: Gweebarra Bridge / Doherty's Tom Billy's [Reel] ( B1,41 ) Ng#1803 S#901 AKA: Speed the Plough / Cronin’s / Johnny Cronin’s Fancy Road to Rio [Reel] ( B1,42 ) Ng#1664 S#575 AKA: The Reel of Rio by Seán Ryan Ril Bheara [Reel] ( B1,43 ) Ng#133 S#696 AKA: Bare Island / The Bear Island Reel by Finbar Dwyer Master Crowley's [Reel] ( B1,44 ) Ng#1313 S#281 AKA: Miss Patterson’s Slipper There are other tunes that also use this title. Rattigan's [Reel] ( B1,45 ) Ng#3740 S#1449,2262 AKA: Rhattigan's / Redigan’s / Larry Redican’s / The High Leap Big Reel of Callightown, The [Reel] ( B1,46 ) Ng#4958 S#133 AKA: Big Reel of Ballynacally Callaghan's [Reel] ( B1,47 ) Ng#2636 S#1731 AKA: The Doon Reel The title given here is also applied to a diferent reel in G (Ng#266) Old Copper Plate, The [Reel] ( B1,48 ) Ng#1456 S#410 AKA: Copperplate No. 2 Caher Rua [Reel] ( B1,49 ) Ng#4199 S#4858 AKA: The Carraroe Reel / Ríl na Ceathrú Rua Oak Tree, The [Reel] ( B1,50 ) Ng#1434 S#212 Foxhunter's, The [Reel] ( B1,51 ) Ng#669 S#511 Dawn, The [Reel] ( B1,52 ) Ng#474 S#167 AKA: Dawning of the Day / Miller's Reel Swinging on the Gate [Reel] ( B1,53 ) Ng#1868 S#236 This tune is commonly played in the key of G. Battering Ram [Jig] ( B1,54 ) Ng#129 S#382 Bill Hartes [Jig] ( B1,55 ) Ng#1794 S#2788 AKA: Sonny Brogan's / The Rookery Notes on tunes in Bulmer & Sharpley's "Music from Ireland" RWWT 5/25/2011 page 3 Castle, The [Jig] ( B1,56 ) Ng#1022 S#55 AKA: The Kesh Jig / The Kincora Jig / The Mountaineers' March Knights of St. Patrick [Jig] ( B1,57 ) Ng#1061 S#1822 Port Sheain Sheosaima [Jig] ( B1,58 ) Ng#2138 S#2138 AKA: The Gullane Jig / Old Joe's / John Joe's Fancy Willie Colemans [Jig] ( B1,59 ) Ng#2075 S#476 AKA: The Moate Hunt Brides Favourite [Jig] ( B1,60 ) Ng#225 S#3746 Maid in the Meadow [Jig] ( B1,61 ) Ng#774 S#942 AKA: Jimmy O'Brien's / Cossey's / Molly Brallaghan Melodically similar to the reel Green Fields of America (Ng#775). Port Gan Ainm [Jig] ( B1,62 ) Ng#—— S#6223 Unidentified jig. Behind the Haystack [Jig] ( B1,63 ) Ng#137 S#358 AKA: Munster Buttermilk Tommy Peoples [Jig] ( B1,64 ) Ng#758 S#488,2437 AKA: Gráinne’s Jig Composed by Tommy Peoples. Frieze Britches [Jig] ( B1,65 ) Ng#677 S#9781 Also played as a slide. Flowing Tide [Hornpipe] ( B1,66 ) Ng#653 S#2580 AKA: Higgins' Best Delahunty's [Hornpipe] ( B1,67 ) Ng#482 S#309 AKA: The Wicklow Hornpipe / The Home Brew / Sonny Murray’s / The Road to Boyle O'Mahony's [Hornpipe] ( B1,68 ) Ng#2459 S#2488 AKA: The Clareman's Hornpipe Denis Murphy's [Hornpipe] ( B1,69 ) Ng#414 S#478 AKA: Cronin’s Hornpipe Athlone, The [Hornpipe] ( B1,70 ) Ng#2050 S#3548 AKA: The Tara Brooch / The Western Hornpipe / Paddy O'Brien's Sherlock's [Hornpipe] ( B1,71 ) Ng#658 S#713 AKA: The Fort of Kincora / Joe Burke's Séan Rians [Hornpipe] ( B1,72 ) Ng#1266 S#7100 AKA: McMahon's / Trip to Vermont by Seán Ryan Callaghan's [Hornpipe] ( B1,73 ) Ng#267 S#1349 AKA: O'Callaghan's O'Kanes [Hornpipe] ( B1,74 ) Ng#—— S#7978 AKA: Brian O'Kane's Sport of the Chase, The [Slip Jig] ( B1,75 ) Ng#3737 S#854 AKA: Ceol Na Seilge / New Claret To Limerick We Will Go [Slip Jig] ( B1,76 ) Ng#—— S#2190 Appears as an air in O'Neill's Music of Ireland. Notes on tunes in Bulmer & Sharpley's "Music from Ireland" RWWT 5/25/2011 page 4 Merrily Kiss the Quaker [Slide] ( B1,77 ) Ng#1271 S#70 AKA: Kiss the Quaker’s Wife Little Heathy Hill, The [Misc] ( B1,78 ) Ng#345 S#1032 A hornpipe, set dance or air. South Wind, The [Air] ( B1,79 ) Ng#1798 S#601 AKA: An Ghaoth Aneas / The Southern Breeze by Donall Meidhreach Mac Conmara Munster Cloak, The [Air] ( B1,80 ) Ng#1374 S#1126 Battle of Cremona [March] ( B1,81 ) Ng#—— S#—— Loosely related to march The Fearless Boys appearing in O'Neill's 1850. ? [Misc] ( B1,82 ) Ng#—— S#—— Unidentified tune. Give Me Your Hand [Air] ( B1,83 ) Ng#723 S#454 AKA: Tabhair Dom Do Lámh / Waltz Of The White Lilies by Rory Dall O’Cathain (17th cent.) ========================================================== ============ "Music from Ireland, Volume Two" ~ Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley, 1974 ISBN: 0-9503784-10 Glen Allen [Reel] ( B2,1 ) Ng#730 S#141 AKA: The Kilmaley / Sonny Martin's Castle, The [Reel] ( B2,2 ) Ng#1282 S#1835 AKA: Micho Russell's / The Hut in the Bog / Carty's Glass of Beer [Reel] ( B2,3 ) Ng#727 S#188 AKA: Johnny Maguire's / Listowel Lasses / McFadden’s Connamara Stockings [Reel] ( B2,4 ) Ng#2450 S#614 AKA: Winter Apples / The Galway Reel Dowd's Favourite [Reel] ( B2,5 ) Ng#536 S#229 AKA: O'Dowd's New Mown Meadows [Reel] ( B2,6 ) Ng#1409,4870 S#2706 AKA: The Threepenny Bit / Pat Canny's / Anderson's / The Silver Tip A collection of closely-related tunes are associated with this title.