Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 3746 (Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Slide32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself
 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 CBnds (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):
Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself / Get Up Old Woman & Shake Yourself / Growling Old Woman / Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself / Last Night amid Dreams / Irish Whim / O'Tuomy's Carousal / Capt. Thornton's Delight / Conor O'Sullivan's Vision / Donogh O'Sullivan's Reply (1st in set O'Connor's on CBnds) (as single jig on SEgn 1; as jig on WFO 1; parts reversed in CRE 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
~19865#2[SEgn 1] Seamus Egan. Traditional Music of Ireland. Seamus Egan (flute, banjo, mandolin, whistle, pipes, tres).View album details
~19971.3#2[WFO 1] various. Wooden Flute Obsession. View album details
199816#1[CBnds] various. The County Bounds. 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 #1091 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #394 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #91 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
On page 69 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As tune #216 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
As sgjig #37 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): 1903
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