Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for North-by-NorthWest by Eliot Grasso and Dave Cory

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Artist NameEliot Grasso and Dave Cory
Album TitleNorth-by-NorthWest
MusiciansEliot Grasso (pipes, flute), Dave Cory (banjo, guitar, octave mandolin).
Source and
other information
Illen Odyssey EG002, 2006. Recorded 9-10 June 2006 in Portland, Oregon.

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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
4753
Reel Billy McComiskey's (composed by Eliot Grasso)
2 Tune Info
217
Reel Dan Breen's / Dan Breen's Reel / Breen's Reel / Dan Breens / West Clare Reel / The West Clare / Ríl Iarthar an Chláir (3rd in set The Maids of Galway on WFO 1; 3rd in set The Maid of Galway on WFO 1; 2nd in set West Clare Reels on Chlr; on MvC 2, this tune appears again at the end of that track) (also in G or E)
3 Tune Info
135
Reel Beauty Spot, The / An Ball Seirce / An Ball Scéimhe / The Back of the Change (2nd in set Micho Russells Set on 4MD 2) (also doubled) (compare Gorman's #962 and compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Solus Lillis's Reel #2912)
21 Tune Info
4270
JigD Fly in the Porter, The / Fly in the Porter (composed by Paddy O'Brien the elder, of Tipperary)
2 Tune Info
4754
JigD Gan Ainm
31 Tune Info
1424
Reel Nine Points of Roguery, The / Naoi nArda na Rógaireachta / The Nine Points to Roguery / The Black Mare of Fanad / The Kiltyfanad Reel (compare Doon Reel #319)
2 Tune Info
600
Reel Famous Ballymote / The Famous Ballymote / Pride of Ahamore / Péarla an Achaidh Mhóir (parts reversed in book CRE 2)
41 Tune Info
161
Reel Blackberry Blossom, The / Blackberry Blossom / Bláth na Sméire Duibhe / Blackberry Blossoms / The Strawberry Beds / The Strawberry Blossom (also in A or D or doubled)
2 Tune Info
4755
Reel Slate Hill (composed by John Daly)
51 Tune Info
4756
JigD Purse Rusted Shut, The (composed by Eliot Grasso)
2 Tune Info
4757
JigD Green Lady, The (composed by Eliot Grasso)
3 Tune Info
4758
JigD Morgan Andersen's Forêt (composed by Eliot Grasso)
61 Tune Info
1384
Reel Musical Priest, The / Musical Priest / An Sagart Ceolmhar / The Buckeen / Lord Kelly's Reel / The New Bridge of Erin (also in A or G; also with 2 extra parts)
2 Tune Info
613
Reel Farrell O'Gara / Farrell O'Gara's / Farrell O Gara's / Farrell O' Gara / Farrell Ó Gara / Farral O'Gara / Farrel O'Gara / Faral O'Gara / Fearaíl Ó Gára / Fearghal Ó Gadhra / Fearghal O' Gadhra / Fearghal O'Gara / Fergal O'Gara / Feargal O'Gara / Farral Gara / Farrell Gara / The Falcarragh Reel / Turas go Trá Lí / The Trip to Tralee / Mist on the Mountain
71 Tune Info
1692
SetD Rodney's Glory / Rodneys Glory / Irishman's Return from America / My Name Is Moll Mackey / The Praises of Limerick (also in Minor or Major) (compare as song-air included here; compare distantly Princess Royal #3189)
2 Tune Info
1398
Hland Watchmaker, The / Neil Gow's Highland [Niel Gow's Highland] / Neil Gow's Wife [Niel Gow's Wife] / John Doherty's / John Gaffney's Fling / Thistle and Shamrock / Con Cassidy's (3rd in set Thistle and Shamrock on MG) (also as reel; misattributed to Frank Higgins in book JKg 3) (compare strathspey Niel Gow's Wife)
81 Tune Info
2008
Reel Up against the Buachalawns / Up against the Boughalauns / Thar an gCnoc / Over the Hill / The Limerick Lassies / Miss Lyon's Fancy / Miss Lyons Fancy / Miss Lyon's / Rogha Iníon Uí Liatháin / Rogha Iníon Uí Laighin / Early Breakfast / The Knocknagree Reel / The Green Hills of Kerry / Sunny Brogan's Favorite (1st in set The Green Mountain on Drv 4) (also in G)
2 Tune Info
1290
Reel Pinch of Snuff, The / An Pinsín Snaoisín / The Old Pinch of Snuff / Pinch of Snuff / Mil na Maidí / Mill na Máidí / The Crushing of Twigs / The Humours of Swanlinbar (various number and order of parts) (compare Pinch of Snuff #1583, Glen Road to Carrick #732, and 1st part with 1st part of Four Courts No. 2 #2469)
91 Tune Info
4759
Air Fallen Bridge, The (composed by Eliot Grasso)
2 Tune Info
3189
Piece Princess Royal, The / Princess Royal / Iníon Nic Diarmada / Iníon Nic Diarmad / Miss MacDermott (also in G; wide range of settings) (compare distantly Rodney's Glory #1692) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan?)
101 Tune Info
4760
Hpipe Come Hither Stare, The (composed by Eliot Grasso)
2 Tune Info
701
Hpipe Paul Halfpenny / Poll Ha'penny / Poll Ha' Penny / Brian the Brave / Garraí na Bhfeileoig (also in A Minor, A Mixolydian, and E Dorian) (compare as song-air Mollie Mac Alpin / Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave / Remenber the Glories of Brian the Brave [sic], included here; compare Fraoch na n-Aé / Brian the Brave, included here; compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Hawk's Hornpipe / Hawke's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Eachaigh included here; compare as set dance #1558)
111 Tune Info
4761
JigD Thrupenny Bit, The (composed by Peter Fitzgerald)
2 Tune Info
4762
JigD Bowels of the Earth, The (composed by Peter Fitzgerald)
3 Tune Info
4763
JigD Falls of the West, The (composed by Eliot Grasso)
121 Tune Info
4764
Reel Smith O'Couster (composed by Tom Anderson)
2 Tune Info
2088
Reel Drunken Tinker, The / The Yellow Tinker / Yellow Tinker #1 / The Jolly Tinker / Dick Cosgrove's Reel / Dick Cosgrove's (also in G Dorian, also with 2nd part doubled; or, instead, two or three slightly different tunes could possibly be distinguished across all of these sources, in which case the titles of them would be probably The Yellow Tinker from Donegal, The Drunken Tinker from Connaught, and then Dick Cosgrove's, the one more similar to #552) (compare 1st part with 1st part of #552)
3 Tune Info
606
Reel Farewell to Erin / Farewell to Ireland / Slán le hÉirinn / The Maid in the Cherry Tree / Maid in the Cherry Tree/ Maid in a Cherry Tree / The Flying Column / Austin Tierney's (1st in set The Savoy on KCB 6) (also with parts reversed, also in E) (compare The London Lasses #1147)