Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2239 (May Morning Dew)

Type
Song
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
May Morning Dew, The / May Morning Dew (also as air)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
19912.4#1[McP BHB] The McPeake Family and Paul Burns. Back Home in Belfast. View album details
~199210#1[Sg] Scartaglen. Last Night's Fun. Irish Music in America. Kirk Lynch (pipes, whistle, etc.), Connie Dover (vocals, keyboards), Roger Landes (bouzouki etc.), Michael Dugger (fiddle etc.).View album details
~19932#1[SSt] various. The Sound of Stone. Artists for Mullaghmore. View album details
~199315#1[SSt] various. The Sound of Stone. Artists for Mullaghmore. View album details
~19969#1[ST] Seamus Tansey. Easter Snow. Seamus Tansey (flute).View album details
~19966#1[MOB] Mick O' Brien. May Morning Dew. Mick O' Brien (pipes, whistle).View album details
~19981.4#1[ESL 1] various. An Evening in Sliabh Luachra. Volume One. A Collection of Traditional Music and Song from the Sliabh Luachra Area. View album details
~19989#1[MMR 2] Mike and Mary Rafferty. The Old Fireside Music. Mike Rafferty (flute, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, whistle).View album details
200011#1[Ch W] The Chieftains. Water from the Well. Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle, accordion), Derek Bell (harp, harpsichord, piano, tiompán), Seán Keane (fiddle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals), Matt Molloy (flute).View album details
~20004#1[LLPQ 1] The London Lasses and Pete Quinn. The London Lasses and Pete Quinn. Bernie Conneely (banjo), Elaine Conwell (fiddle), Karen Ryan (fiddle, whistle), Sharon Whelton (flute, whistle).View album details
~200717#1[CMcN] Christy McNamara. The House I Was Reared In. Christy McNamara (accordion, concertina, vocals).View album details

Bibliography

Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order.

As tune #302 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [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): 1991
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