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Album Details for 6. Bonaparte's Retreat by The Chieftains

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Artist NameThe Chieftains
Album Title6. Bonaparte's Retreat
MusiciansPaddy Moloney [misspelled as:] Maloney (pipes, whistle, bodhrán), Seán Potts (whistle, bodhrán), Martin Fay (fiddle), Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, oboe, tiompán), Seán Keane (fiddle), with Ronnie McShane (bones), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán), Dolores Keane (vocals).
Source and
other information		Claddagh Records CC20CD, 1976. Reissue of Claddagh CC20, 1976. Recorded in London. Notes by Garech de Brún and Richard Ryan. The fragments of various songs included on track 3 are not indexed here.

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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
560		 Reel Dunmore Lasses / The Dunmore Lasses / Dunmore Lassies / Gearrchailiú an Dúin Mhóir / The Road to Knock / Morrison's Reel / Morrison's (1st in set The Chattering Magpie on Ch 6) (also in D; 2nd part used as intro on MMlny)
2 Tune Info
1581		 Reel Pigeon on the Gate, The / Pigeon on the Gate / Pidgeon on the Gate / A Pigeon on the Gate / An Colúr ar an nGeata / Pigeon on the Pier / The Pigeon on the Pier / Lagan Slashers / The Lagan Slashers / League and Slasher / The Athol Braes / The Scotch Braes / Reidy's Reel / The Drinking Reel / The Drunken Tailor / The Wandering Tinker / Gallagher's Best / The Swallowtail (2nd in set The Chattering Magpie on Ch 6; 3rd in The Taproom Set on CLnn 2) (also in A or G or G Minor; quite a bit of variation in the 2nd part) (compare The Drunken Landlady #549 and compare 1st part with 1st part of Drunken Tailor #551)
3 Tune Info
2642		 JigSl Top It Off / Cuir Barr Air / Dress Her Out in Fine Clothes / The Maid's Request / The Booley House Jig (note varying meters usuallly; also singled, entirely in regular meter) (compare 1st part with 1st part of reel #4710)
4 Tune Info
4710		 Reel Top it Off (4th in set The Chattering Magpie on Ch 6) (compare 1st part with 1st part of slip jig #2642)
5 Tune Info
308		 Reel Chattering Magpie, The / Chatterin Magpie / An Mheaig Chabach / Gun in the Thatch
21 Tune Info
4711		 Air An Chéad Mháirt den Fhomhar / An Chéad Mháirt den Fhombar / The First Tuesday of Autumn
2 Tune Info
4161		 Schot Green Grow the Rushes O / Green Grow the Rushes-O / Green Grow the Rushes / We're a' Dry wi' Drinking o't (also as reel, also in Bb)
3(4:55)1 Tune Info
3692		 SetD Madame Bonaparte / Madam Bonaparte / Madame Boneparte / Bonaparte's Advance (appears in collage Bonaparte's Retreat on Ch 6) (also in A ,also as reel on JD 5) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Tom Billy's #3639)
3(6:51)2 Tune Info
4712		 March March to Victory, The (appears in collage Bonaparte's Retreat on Ch 6) (composed by Paddy Moloney)
3(7:52)3 Tune Info
2824		 SetD Bonaparte's Retreat / Boneparte's Retreat / The Retreat / Cúlú Napoléon (appears within collage Bonaparte's Retreat on Ch 6) (also in D, also in E Dorian or D Dorian) (compare hornpipe Bonaparte's Defeat included here)
3(11:11)4 Tune Info
3714		 SetD Downfall of Paris, The (appears in collage Bonaparte's Retreat on Ch 6) (also without 3rd and 4th parts)
41 Tune Info
91		 SgJig Ask My Father / Ask Me Father / Fiafraigh de m'Athair é / The Four Courts (1st in set Away with Ye on Ch 6) (also singled, also as hornpipe, included here) (compare With All My Heart #2645 and Johnny Allen #986)
2 Tune Info
2244		 Air Casadh an tSúgáin / Casadh an t Súgáin / The Twisting of the Rope (2nd in set Away with Ye on Ch 6)
3 Tune Info
1461		 JigD Old Hag You Have Killed Me / Old Hag, You Have Killed Me / Oh Hag You Have Killed Me / O Hag You Have Killed Me! / A Chailleach, do Mharaís Mé / 'Chailleach, do Mhairís Mé / 'Chailligh, Do Mhairis Mé / Stop, Old Hag, or You'll Kill Me (3rd in set Away with Ye on Ch 6) (compare Will You Come Home with Me? #2442, compare The Sheep on the Mountains / Na Caoirigh ar na Sléibhte included here from O'Neill and CRE 2 books, and compare 1st part with 1st part of The Stolen Purse in book 1001, included here)
51 Tune Info
54		 JigD Alasdruim's March / Alasdruims March / Allistrum's March / Allastrom's / Máirseáil Alasdruim / Mairseail Alasdruim / Máirséail Alasdroim / Ollistrum Jig / Ollistrum (1st in set Caledonia on Ch 6) (also in D; wide range of settings, including reversed parts, or more parts)
2 Tune Info
1089		 JigD Langstrom's Pony / Langstroms Pony / The Langstern Pony / Capaillín Langstern / The Lanstrum Poney / The Lanxtrum Pony / Lastrum Pone / Lostrum Ponia / Saddle the Pony / Farrell's Pipes / The Fourpenny Girl / Four Penny Girl / Grania's Welcome Home / A Draught of Ale / The Priest's Leap (2nd in set Caledonia on Ch 6) (also without 3rd and 4th parts)
61 Tune Info
3189		 Piece Princess Royal, The / Princess Royal / Iníon Nic Diarmada / Iníon Nic Diarmad / Miss MacDermott (also in G; wide range of settings) (compare distantly Rodney's Glory #1692) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan?)
2 Tune Info
177		 Air Blind Mary / Máire Dhall / Máire Chaoch (also in D) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
3 Tune Info
1592		 Piece Planxty Drury / John Drury / O Will You Sit in the Bower? (also as set dance) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
71 Tune Info
1676		 Hpipe Rights of Man, The / Rights of Man (also in B Dorian) (composed by James Hill)
81 Tune Info
4713		 Slide [untitled] (1st in set Round the House and Mind the Dresser on Ch 6)
2 Tune Info
806		 Slide Rathawaun, The / The Hare in the Corn / The Frost Is All Under (2nd and 4th in set Round the House and Mind the Dresser on Ch 6) (also as jig)
3 Tune Info
486		 Slide Mad Dancing / If I Had a Wife / Denis Murphy's / Nellie Mahoney's Slide / Slide Neilí Ní Mhathúna / A Single (3rd and 5th in set Round the House and Mind the Dresser on Ch 6) (compare 1st part with 1st part of #3877)
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