Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland by various

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Artist Namevarious
Album TitleWorld Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland
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other information		Rounder CD 1742, 1998. Reissue of Columbia KL 4941, 1955, which was vol. 2 of Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, produced by Alan Lomax. "Recorded in 1951 in the western counties of Éire." Notes by Nicholas Carolan, Robin Roberts, Alan Lomax, and Seamus Ennis. Note that the printed track contents are not synchronized with the actual track numbers.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
64		 Song An Cailín Aerach / The Airy Girl / The Light-Hearted Girl
21 Tune Info
124		 Song Banks of the Roses, The
31 Tune Info
62		 Song An Binnsín Luachra / The Little Bench of Rushes / The Little Bunch of Rushes (compare as air #2497 and with ballad text The Bonny Bunch of Roses, O! #192)
41 Tune Info
236		 Air Brown Thorn, The / An Droighneán Donn / An Droighnean Donn / Droighnean Donn / An Draighneán Donn / Draoighnean Donn / An Droigheán Donn / Broighnean Donn / The Brown Thorntree / St. Senanus and the Lady / Why Do Lovely Virgins Mourn? / The Bark Is on the Swelling Shore / The Sloe Tree (also as song, included here)
51 Tune Info
99		 Reel Bag of Spuds, The / The Bag o' Spuds / The Bag of Potatoes / Sack of Potatoes / An Mála Fataí / Mála Fataí / An Mála Prátaí / An Mála Prátai / The Sligo Dandy / Eddie Dunne's Favourite (also in G) (compare Bonnie Ann #3666)
2 Tune Info
1197		 Reel Maid of Mount Kisco, The / Maid of Mount Kisco / Gearrchaile Shliabh Cisco / Bruinneall Mount Cisco / Maid of Mt Kisko / The Maid of Mount Cisco / Maid of Mount Cisco / The Maid of Mountcisco / The Maid of Montcisco / The Maids of Mount Cisco / Maids of Mount Cisco (for 5th figure of Caledonian Set on JRSLCB 2; 3rd in set Eanáir on Lu 1 and Lu 7) (also in E) (composed by Paddy Killoran?)
61 Tune Info
453		 Song Dance to Your Daddy
2 Tune Info
426		 Song Cucanandy / Cuca-Nandy-Nandy / Dance to Your Daddy O (also as slip jig) (compare slip jig Another Jig Will Do #78 and compare slide She Didn't Dance and Dance #2484)
71 Tune Info
1270		 Song An Mhaighdean Mhara / The Mermaid / The Mermaid Song / The Sea Maiden (also as air)
81 Tune Info
595		 Song Fairy Lullaby, The (compare O'Neill's transcription A Lullaby / Shuheen Sho in IMM)
91 Tune Info
664		 Piece Fox Chase, The / The Fox Hunt / The Irish Fox Hunt / Fiach an Mhadra Rua / An Madradhín Ruadh / An Madradhín Ruad / An Madradin Ruadh (contains The Foxhunter's Jig #668) (compare Paddy Moloney's medley The Foxhunt included here and the English tune The Little Red Fox)
2 Tune Info
668		 JigSl Foxhunter's Jig, The / The Fox Hunter's Jig / The Foxhunters' Jig / Foxhunters' Jig / The Foxhunters' / Foxhunter's / The Fox Hunter / The Jolly Foxhunters (also as close of An Madradhín Ruadh / The Fox Chase #664; in set Chasing the Fox on Ch BIH) (also in G; a widespread alternate setting is in G without 1st part or 4th part, as on MC and in some later sources; also as double jig on Ch 2) (compare Humors of Derrycrosane #855)
101 Tune Info
3170		 Song Rocks of Bawn, The (also as air) (compare melody with melody of Maid from Maraclune #4849)
111 Tune Info
61		 Song Amhrán Fosuíchta / The Herding Song
121 Tune Info
188		 Song Bold Tenant Farmer, The
131 Tune Info
1091		 JigD Lark in the Morning, The / The Little Yellow Boy / The Yellow Little Boy / An Buachaillín Buí / Bouchaleen Buie / Galway Tom / Galway Town / A Western Lilt / The Goat's Horn / The Goats' Horns / Come in the Evening / The Kelso Races / The Welcome / The Thrush's Nest / The Spotted Cow (for 4th figure of Caledonian Set on JRSLCB 2; for The Siege of Ennis in book MM) (wide range of settings included here) (compare Peacock's Feather #2485 and Spotted Cow #4887)
141 Tune Info
435		 Slide Cúnla / Cunla / Connla / An Brístín Mire / The Frieze Breeches / Gallagher's Frolics (2nd in set Michael Gorman's on BB 2; this set in turn was mislabeled on some reissues as The Laurel Tree) (also as single jig or song) (compare as double jig I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her #3436)
151 Tune Info
132		 Song Bean Pháidín / Bean Phaidín / [misspelled as:] Bean Phaidón / The Wife of Páidín
161 Tune Info
1759		 Air She Moved through the Fair / She Moves through the Fair (composed by Padraic Colum (text), arranged by Herbert Hughes)
171 Tune Info
1344		 Song Morrissey and the Russian Sailor
181 Tune Info
394		 Reel Copperplate, The / The Copper Plate / The New Copperplate / New Copperplate / The Copperplate No. 1 (1st in set The Copperplates on Shskn 10 and on CMcN) (compare the Scottish reel Cabar Feidh)
191 Tune Info
2062		 Song Whiskey in the Jar
201 Tune Info
1324		 Song Mo Grádh-Sa An Jug Mór Is é Lán / An Jug Mór is é Lán / The Big Jug When it is Full / I Love a Big Full Jug
211 Tune Info
1471		 Reel Old Woman of the House, The / The Woman of the House / Lady of the House / Máistreás an Tí / The Mistress of the House / Pádraig O'Keeffe's 'Woman of the House' / O'Keeffe's 'Woman of the House' / Old Maids of Sligo / Old Leitrim / The Cows Are A-Milking / Walsh's (compare #2082)
2 Tune Info
2082		 Reel Woman of the House, The / Bean an Tí ar lár / Bean á Tí / The Lady of the House (2nd in set Reels from the 1920's on FG 3; 2nd in set Clumsy Love on McP BHB) (also in A) (compare Old Woman of the House #1471)
221 Tune Info
256		 Song Cois Abhainn Na Séad / By the River of Gems (also as air)
231 Tune Info
894		 Song Innsin Bhéil Átha 'N Ghaorthaidh / The Little Inch of Ballingeary
241 Tune Info
329		 Song Cití Na gCumann / Cití No gCumann / Kitty of Loves
251 Tune Info
1330		 Song Molly Bawn / Polly Vaughn / The Shooting of his Dear
261 Tune Info
1085		 Song Lament for Una Bhán, The
271 Tune Info
3171		 Song Keen for a Dead Child
281 Tune Info
812		 Air Raibh tú ag an gCarraig? / A' Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig? / An Raibh tú ag an gCarraig / An Raibh tú ag an gCarraig? / An Raibh tú ar an gCarraig? / An Rabhais ag an g Carraig / Have You Been at Carrick? / Were you at Carrick? / Have You Been at the Rock? / Were You at the Rock? / Were You at the Rock (also as song, included here)
291 Tune Info
1790		 Song Soldier, Soldier
301 Tune Info
681		 JigD Frost Is All Over, The / The Praties Are Dug and the Frost Is All Over / What Would You Do? / What Would You Do If the Kettle Boiled Over? / What'll I Do If the Kettle Boils Over / Paddy's Return / Young Tim Murphy / Patsy McCann's / Kitty Lie Over (for 1st figure of Taille Mhara Jig Set on MISD 7) (also sung with text, and compare with text of #682)
311 Tune Info
1360		 Song Mrs. McGrath
321 Tune Info
478		 Song Death of Brugh, The
331 Tune Info
241		 Reel Bucks of Oranmore, The / Bucks of Oranmore / Bocannaí Uaráin Mhóir / Bocanna Óráin Mhóir / The Bucks of Carranmore / The Bucks of Cranmore / The Hearty Bucks / The Bucks (2nd in set Miss Monaghan on McP BHB) (also with fewer parts and in different order) (compare The Leitrim Bucks included here; compare Killavil Bucks #4886 and compare 1st part with 1st part of Fermanagh Highland #2110)
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