Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Floating Bow by John Doherty

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Artist NameJohn Doherty
Album TitleThe Floating Bow
MusiciansJohn Doherty (fiddle).
Source and
other information		Claddagh Records CCF31CD, 1996. Recorded between 1968 and 1974. Notes by Alun Evans and Dermot McLaughlin.

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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
1812		 Reel Spirits of Wine, The
2 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)
21 Tune Info
4685		 March Further in the Deeper, The / The Farther in the Deeper
31 Tune Info
392		 Air Coolin, The / An Chúileann / An Chúilfhionn / An Chuilfhionn / The Coulin / Though the Last Glimpse of Erin / In this Calm Sheltered Villa / Oh! Hush the Soft Sigh / The Lady of the Desert (also in D; also as march on JD 5)
2 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)
41 Tune Info
544		 JigSl Drops of Brandy / The Drops of Brandy / Lots of Drops of Brandy / Oh! Mary, If My Advice You Take / Hey, My Nancy (also in D) (including Paddy Moloney's arrangement)
51 Tune Info
4686		 Reel Miss Patterson's Slipper (also 3rd part doubled, also without 3rd part, also in C Mixolydian; also 1st part in Dorian; this tune can be described as a strongly distinct setting of #1313 from John Doherty) (compare #1313)
61 Tune Info
4687		 Air Day I Listed, The
2 Tune Info
602		 Reel Fantastic Reel, The / Glencolmcille / Charlie Cahey's Reel (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Donegal Reel #528)
71 Tune Info
4688		 March Willie McLennan's
81 Tune Info
4689		 JigD Lancers Jig, The
2 Tune Info
784		 JigSl Gusty's Frolics / Gusty's Frolicks / Gurty's Frolics / Gurty's Frolic / The Galway Jig / Súgradh Aibhistín (with up to 9 parts)
91 Tune Info
1882		 Hland Teelin Highland, The / Tom Tailor's (composed by John Cassidy)
101 Tune Info
1732		 Reel Scotch Mary / Scots Mary / Máire Albanach / Irish Molly / Knocknagow / The Knocknagow / Knocknagow Reel / Máire na Sop / Mary O'Wisp / Ríl Bhaile na Finne / The Fintown Reel / My Love Is Far Away (also doubled, also in Mixolydian, also with 3rd part by John Doherty; with Doherty's 3rd part as 1st part on Nms 2) (compare as highland #3162; compare Tom Keane's #4433, Eddie Duffy's Favourite #3567 and compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Grand Canal #759)
111 Tune Info
1782		 Reel Sligo Maid, The / Sligo Maid / Gearrchaile Shligigh / The Sligo Maid's Lament / Sligo Maid's Lament / The Glendoan Fancy / The Glendowan Reel (1st in set The Ritz on KCB 6; in D Major as Sligo Maid - Connemara Version on JCt 1 and on JCt 4) (also in E) (compare The Glendowan Reel / The Glendown Reel / The Glendoan Fancy included here)
2 Tune Info
797		 Reel Hand Me Down the Tackle / Sín Chugam Anuas an Tácla / Hand Down the Tackle / The Pure Drop / Tom Steele / Tomás Stíl / Thomas Steele / The Hielander's Kneebuckle / The Hielanman's Kneebuckle / Búcla Glúine an Híleantóra / Reidy Johnson's / Reidy Johnston's / Drogheda Lasses (4th in set Humours of Galway on FG 3) (compare settings included here of The Drogheda Lasses, and The Pure Drop; compare very distantly Callan Lasses #4741)
121 Tune Info
4690		 March Enniskillen Dragoons, The (also in D)
2 Tune Info
1429		 JigD Nóra Críonna / Nora Crionna / Nóra Crîonna / Nóra Críona / Nora Creena / Nora Chreena / Old Nora / Norah' Jig / Wise Nora / Hushed Be Sorrow's Sigh / Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye (also in A, also with more parts) (compare as slide #1430 and as piece #4970)
3 Tune Info
190		 Reel Bonny Bunch of Ferns, The / The Bonnie Bunch of Ferns / Private Ass and Cart / The Private Ass and Cart / Píobaire an Chéidigh / The Keady Piper / Nellie O'Donovan / Nellie Donovan / Nellie Donovans / Kate Kelly's Fancy / Twin Katy's Reel / The Ravelled Hank of Yarn / Callahan's Reel / O'Keeffe's Reel / Cat that Ate the Sidecomb / Ho! Awake (3rd in set The Sister Reels on JnKlly) (also in A or D) (this tune differs consistently from Callaghan's #2636 only in the last two bars)
131 Tune Info
270		 Reel Cameronian Reel, The / The Cameronian / [misspelled as:] Camaronian / [misspelled as:] Camaronion / The Cameronians / Carey's Dream / Aisling Uí Chiardha / The Pidgeon on the Gate / Roger's Fancy (3rd in set The Kincora on KCB 6) (also singled with a 3rd part, in book WC) (compare The Bantry Lasses #5071)
141 Tune Info
4691		 Hland Dúlaman na Binne Buí (compare McGovern's Favorite #1783)
151 Tune Info
2080		 Reel Within a Mile of Dublin / A Mile from Dublin / I bhFoisceacht Míle do Bhaile Átha Cliath / The Road to Dublin / The Maid of Ballinatra / Maid of Ballintra / An Giobarach / The Meadow in Bloom / Meadow in Bloom / Through the Fields / The Club Reel / The Kerry Lasses / Sarah's Reel / You're a Long Time A Courting / You're a Long Time a-Courting
2 Tune Info
1434		 Reel Oak Tree, The / An Crann Darach /[mislabeled in CRE 2 as:] Bean a' Tí ar Lár [instead of:] The Old Oak Tree / An Seanchrann Darach / Old Simon's Hornpipe (also as hornpipe)
161 Tune Info
4692		 Hpipe Glenconwell Hornpipe
171 Tune Info
1940		 Reel Mint in the Corn, The / Geordie Afflick / Geordie Affleck / Tommy Peoples' Reel (also in D, also 2nd part singled)
181 Tune Info
4693		 March Highlanders, The (or strathspey?)
2 Tune Info
2077		 Reel Wind that Shakes the Barley, The / Wind that Shakes the Barley / An Ghaoth a Bhogann an Eorna / An Gaoth A Chroitheanna An Eorna / An Ghaoth a Chroitheann an Eorna / An Ghaoth a Bhogann / I Sat within the Valley Green / I Sat In The Valley Green / The Kerry Lasses / Rolling Down the Hill (also in G) (also as songs The Donavons; If I Were A Young Maid)
191 Tune Info
1750		 Reel Seán sa Cheo / Seán sa Chéo / Seán sa Céo / Sean sa Cheo / Sean sa Ceo / Sean sa Céo / Seán in the Fog / Sean in the Fog / John in the Fog / Seán is Sinéad / Jack and Jill / The Tullaghan Lassies / Lough Isle Castle (also in D or G; also with a 4th part) (compare 1st 2 parts with New Lough Isle Castle #1408) (composed by Neillidh Boyle?)
201 Tune Info
3698		 Strath King George IV / Rince Garbhchríche Rí Seoirse IV (compare Cape Breton strathspey #5143 and reels #2111 and #1466)
211 Tune Info
4553		 JigD Lancers Jig, The / The Silver Slipper
2 Tune Info
3899		 JigSl Silver Slipper, The (also 2nd part doubled)
221 Tune Info
1350		 Reel Mountain Road, The (3rd in set The Worlds End on Drv 4; follows The Devils of Dublin on track 7 of MtRd) (also with up to 6 parts, also with parts doubled, also in F) (composed by Michael Gorman)
231 Tune Info
1791		 Fling Love Will You Marry Me / Love, Will You Marry Me? / Love Will You Marry Me? / Love, Won't You Marry Me? / Love Won't You Marry Me? / Love Won't You Marry Me / Love Wont You Marry Me / Johnny Will You Marry Me / Jenny Will You Marry Me? / Some Say the Devil Is Dead / Some Say the Devil's Dead / The Braes of Maas / The Braes of Marr / Braes of Mar / The Standard on the Braes o' Mar / Lasses of Donnybrook (2nd in set The Lasses of Donnibrook on WW 2) (also in G or A) (compare as song #2618)
241 Tune Info
191		 Reel Bonnie Kate / Bonny Kate / Cáit Bhóidheach / Cáit Bhreá / Cáitín Ghleoite / The Bonny Lass of Fisherrow / The Bonny Lass of Fishirron / The Boys of Limerick (wide range of settings, including singled or in C Major) (composed by Donald Dow?)
251 Tune Info
4694		 Air Maidin Fhómhair / One Harvest Morning
2 Tune Info
1310		 Reel Miss McLeod / Miss Mc Leod / Miss McLeod's / Miss MacLeod's / Miss McLeod's Reel / Miss McCleod's Reel / Miss McCloud's Reel / Miss McCloud's / Mrs. McLeod / Mrs. MacLeod's Reel / Mrs. McCloud's Reel / Mrs McLeod's Reel / Mrs McLeod's / Misses McLoud's Reel / Miss Macleod of Raasay / Mrs McLeod of Rasay / Ríl Iníon Mhic Leod / Iníon Mhic Leóid / Ríl Mhic Leoid / McLeod's Reel / Macleod's Reel / The Other McCleods / Hop High Ladies / Hop Light Ladies / Hop Up Ladies / The Enterprising Boxer / Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe? / May Day (2nd in set Jig Selection on MR 2; 1st in set Miss McClouds Reels on ESL 1, which in turn is mislabeled there as The Belburry Hills) (also in A or D or F, also with parts reversed in American music) (compare #2693)
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