Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 103 (Ballintore Fancy)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Single jig32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Ballintore Fancy
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording LR 2 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Ballintore Fancy, The / Port Sheáin Pléamonn / John Fleming's Jig / Kiss in the Furze / The Kerry Jig (2nd in set Nightingale on McP BHB) (also reversed parts; also as slow reel; mislabeled as Farewell to Erin on some reissues of BB 2)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19592#2[LR 2] Leo Rowsome. The King of the Pipers. Leo Rowsome (pipes).View album details
19764#3[BB 2] The Bothy Band. Old Hag You Have Killed Me. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Burke (fiddle), Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (vocals, clavinet, harmonium), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (vocals, guitar), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán).View album details
19911.1#2[McP BHB] The McPeake Family and Paul Burns. Back Home in Belfast. View album details
~200112#2[PK 4] Paddy Keenan, Tommy O'Sullivan. The Long Grazing Acre. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Tommy O'Sullivan (guitar, vocals).View album details
~20014#2[JMcK] Joe McKenna. The Irish Low Whistle. Joe McKenna (whistle, pipes, keyboards, piano).View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #79 in [WC] Pat Mitchell. The Dance Music of Willie Clancy. [available]
As tune #66 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As jig #8 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic].
As sgjig #14 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1959
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