Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for Fierce Traditional by Frankie Gavin

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Artist NameFrankie Gavin
Album TitleFierce Traditional
MusiciansFrankie Gavin (fiddle, flute), with Brian McGrath (piano, banjo), Alec Finn (bouzouki), Sean Gavin (accordion).
Source and
other information		Tara Music TARACD 4011, 2001. Recorded in Cahanagh, Co. Longford. All tracks tuned half-step sharp. Tune identifications are credited at least partially to ITMA staff, thus my unusual remarks below regarding two egregious tune misidentifications on this album.

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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
1208		 Reel Man of the House, The / The Man in the House / The Day I Met Tom Moylan / Paddy Carthy's Reel / Carthy's / Tom Ginley's Fancy / Ginley's Fancy / McGinley's / Handsome Sally / The Ivy leaf / Old Tom / Sally Grant (also in D or A) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Man of the House #5035)
2 Tune Info
1619		 Reel Providence Reel, The / The Providence / Providence Reel / Ríl Providence / The Rossport Reel / Cooney's (also in G) (composed by John McGrath)
21 Tune Info
1237		 Reel Maud Millar / Maude Millar / Maud Miller / Maude Miller / Maud Miller's / My Love Is Fair and Handsome / Donegal Boys / I Wish I Never Had Seen You / Magic Slipper / Eileen Curran's / Mrs Smullen's / The Montua / Paddy McFadden / Morrison's (1st in set Maud Millar on FG 6) (also in F or D; also as hornpipe in F titled Morrison's, included here) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Miss Mary O'Neill's Fancy #1306 and with 1st part of Micho Russell's #3855 and more distantly with the 1st part of #4026)
2(1:13)2 Tune Info
1306		 Reel Mary O'Neill's Fancy / Rogha Iníon Uí Néill / Miss Mary O'Neill's Fancy / Maude Miller (2nd in set Maud Millar on FG 6, where the 2nd part is used as a transition) (also in D or Eb and singled) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Maud Millar #1237)
31 Tune Info
1103		 Reel Lass of Carracastle, The / The Carracastle Lass / Miss Langford / Miss Langford's Reel / Iníon Langfort / James Morrison's / John Eddie's (3rd in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (also in C or G) (composed by Paddy Sweeney?)
2 Tune Info
2507		 Reel Tailor's Thimble, The / Méaracán an Táilliúra / Tommy Morrison's / Tom Morrison's (also in D or E, also in Mixolydian, also doubled) (compare Peeler Boland's #3052)
41 Tune Info
1780		 Air Sliabh na mBan / Mountain of the Women / The Mountain of the Women (also as song, included here)
51 Tune Info
924		 Reel Jenny Picking Cockles / Jenny's Picking Cockles / The Old Slipper Shoe / An tSeanbhróigín Bhog / Johnnie Seán the Rake (1st in set Lucy Campbell on JnKlly; mislabeled as Farewell to Leitrim on A B; mislabeled as The Woods of Old Limerick on MRaf) (also in G) (compare with 1st 2 parts of Jenny's Welcome to Charlie #929 and compare The Long Note #3080)
2 Tune Info
604		 Reel Farewell to Connaught / Farewell to Connacht / Slán le Connachta / John Bowe's / John Bowe's No. 2 (also in G)
61 Tune Info
1093		 JigD Lark on the Strand, The / The Lark in the Strand / The Primrose Vale / The Primrose Glen / Gleanntán na Samhaircíní / Wicky Sears (also in D) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Kesh Jig #1022)
2 Tune Info
1118		 JigD Leitrim Fancy, The / Rogha Liadroma / Leitrim Jig / Daleystown Hunt (also in B)
71 Tune Info
4482		 Reel Mystery Reel, The
81 Tune Info
1168		 Reel Lucy Campbell / Lucy Campbell's / Miss Lucy Campbell / Miss Louisa Campbell's Delight / Miss Lucia Campbell / Luighseach Chaimbéal / Luighseach Chaimbhéal / The Dear Meal Is Cheap / The Dear Meal / Leap Year / The Leap Year / Cairngorum (2nd in set Away We Go Again on Ch 7) (also in A) (compare as song The Bridal O't)
91 Tune Info
2799		 JigD Night Cap, The (also in G)
2 Tune Info
682		 JigD Frost Is All Over, The / The Frost Is All Gone / The Mist of Clonmel / On a Monday Morning / Praties Are Dug / The Potatoes Are Dug and the Frost Is All Over / What Would I Do if the Kettle Boiled Over? / The Dancing of the Rabbits in Honan's Garden (2nd in set Around the Old Turf Fire on FBros; on Plx 4 only 1st part is played) (also in G, also as song, compare #2775, and compare this text used for #681)
101 Tune Info
2055		 Reel Wheels of the World, The / Rothaí an Domhain / [misspelled as:] Wheel of the World / [mislabeled on the seminal 1930 recording by James Morrison as:] Rakish Paddy
2 Tune Info
2804		 Reel Delaney's Frolics / The Dunboyne Straw Plaiters (3rd in pastiche Nano's Favorites on WW 2) (compare 1st part with Leave My Way #1112)
111 Tune Info
257		 Hpipe Byrne's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Bhroin / Bryant's Favourite / O'Briens / Tommy Hill's Favorite / Kimmel's (1st in set Tommy Hills' Favourite on MC) (also in G or A)
2 Tune Info
1366		 Hpipe Mullingar Races, The / Mullingar Races / May Day / Sean Ryan's (also in D)
121 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 (3rd in set Eanáir on Lu 7) (also in E) (composed by Paddy Killoran?)
131 Tune Info
277		 Reel Captain Kelly / Captain Kelly's / Captain Kelly's Reel (misidentified on FG 6 as The New Road) (also in D or C)
2 Tune Info
1021		 Reel Fisherman's Lilt, The / Fisherman's Lilt / The Fishermen's Lilt / Streanncán an Iascaire / The Kerryman's Daughter / Kerryman's Daughter / You're Right My Love / Molly, What Ails You? / Molly What Ails You? / Cunningham's Fancy / Halligan's Fancy / Michael Coleman's Dream / Funny Eye / The Pretty Girls of the Village (also in D, also singled) (compare with polka Siege of Ennis #2410; compare very distantly Fred Finn's #674; according to Breathnach, compare this with Lady Mary Lindsay; compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Old John's Jig #1465)
3 Tune Info
870		 Reel Humours of Westport, The / Humours of Westport / The Humors of Westport / The Milestone at the Garden (2nd in set The Mountain Road on 4MD 2) (also with parts reversed and also singled, also in G or D) (compare Scottish reel The Clydesdale Lasses included here and Pretty Peggy #1612)
141 Tune Info
4483		 Air She Lived beside the Anner (composed by Charles J. Kickham)
151 Tune Info
1230		 Reel Mason's Apron, The / Naprún an tSaoir / Práiscín an Mhásúin / Práiscín an tSaoir Chloiche / (as Micho Russell's Mason's Apron on FG 6) / The Mason's Cap / The Mason Laddie / Lady Carbury / Gallagher's / Wake-Up, Susan / Wake up, Susan / Wake Susan / Carton's Reel / Carton's / (also in G or E, also with up to 7 parts, the extra parts being composed by Sean Maguire) (compare American tune Jack of Diamonds included here)
161 Tune Info
643		 Reel Flogging Reel, The / The Flogging / The Floggin' / Floggin' Reel / The Floggin / Floggan Reel / The Slashing Reel / Ríl an Lasctha / An Lascadh / The Flaggon Reel / The Flaggon / The Flagon / The Flagon Reel / The Humours of Bantry Bay / The Newry Lass (also in D or F, also with some or all parts doubled) (compare The Fife Reel and 1st part with 1st part of Pirrie Wirrie #3326)
2 Tune Info
1813		 Reel Sporting Nell / Sporting Nellie / Gorman's / Gorman's Reel / Johnny Gorman's / Geary's Reel (also in A) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Gorman's #962)
171 Tune Info
4365		 Hpipe Thames Hornpipe, The (misidentified on FG 6 as Wonder Hornpipe)
2 Tune Info
669		 Reel Foxhunter's Reel, The / The Foxhunter's / Foxhunter's / Foxhunter / The Foxhunters / The Foxhunters' Reel / Fiagaí an Mhada Rua / The Fiddler Is Drunk / Patrick Kelly's Reel / Greig's Pipes (in set Chasing the Fox as well as in Horses of Ireland - Part 2 on Ch BIH) (also in A) (compare Clare Reel #333 and compare 1st part with 2nd part of Tailor's Choice #4799)
181 Tune Info
3041		 Reel Mulqueen's / Spindle Shanks / Free and Easy / The Kerry Lasses (also in D or C)
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