Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Fox Chase by Seamus Ennis

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Artist NameSeamus Ennis
Album TitleThe Fox Chase
MusiciansSeamus Ennis (pipes).
Source and
other information		Tara TARACD 1002/9, [1995]. Half of a double CD. Reissue of Tara 1009, 1978. Notes by Seamus Ennis and Liam O'Flynn.

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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
1379		 Reel Music at the Gate (compare song Phil the Fluter's Ball and compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Miss Thornton's #1318)
2 Tune Info
1581		 Reel Pigeon on the Gate, The / Pigeon on the Gate / Pidgeon on the Gate / A Pigeon on the Gate / An Colúr ar an nGeata / Pigeon on the Pier / The Pigeon on the Pier / Lagan Slashers / The Lagan Slashers / League and Slasher / The Athol Braes / The Scotch Braes / Reidy's Reel / The Drinking Reel / The Drunken Tailor / The Wandering Tinker / Gallagher's Best / The Swallowtail (2nd in set The Chattering Magpie on Ch 6; 3rd in The Taproom Set on CLnn 2) (also in A or G or G Minor; quite a bit of variation in the 2nd part) (compare The Drunken Landlady #549 and compare 1st part with 1st part of Drunken Tailor #551)
21 Tune Info
180		 JigD Blooming Meadows, The / An Móinéar Bláfar / The Blooming Meadow / Down with the Tithes / Down the Hill / Hag and Her Praskeen / Humors of Milltown / The Silver Tip / The Green Hills of Armagh (also without 3rd part in older books) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of High Part of the Road #2653)
2 Tune Info
1059		 JigD Kitty's Rambles / Kitty's Ramble / Kitty's Rambles to Youghal / The Rambles of Kitty / Rambles of Kitty / The Heart of my Kitty for Me / The Heart of my Kitty Still Warms to Me / The Heart of My Kitty / Dan the Cobbler / The Ladies' Triumph / The Ladies Triumph / Young Ettie Lee / I'm a Man in Myself Like Oliver's Bull / Linehan's Rambles / Murray's Maggot / Strap the Razor / An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn (1st in set The Frost Is All Over on MC) (also with 3 or 4 parts) (very similar to The Cobbler #349)
31 Tune Info
2405		 Air Ned of the Hill / Éamonn an Chnuich / Éamonn an Cnuich / Eamonn a 'Chnuic / The Young Man's Dream / Col O'Gara / As a Beam o'er the Waters (compare setting #1397)
41 Tune Info
1785		 SgJig Smash the Windows / Bris na Fuinneogí / Roaring Jelly Jig (for dance The Haymakers Jig in book MM) (also as slide, included here) (compare as reel #2989)
2 Tune Info
488		 Slide Denis Murphy's / Denis Murphy's Slide / Dennis Murphy's Slide / Denis Murphy's Slide No. 1 / Padraic O'Keefe's Slide / Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide / Julia Clifford's Slide / Dark Girl in Blue / The Dark Girl in Blue / The Girl in the Dress / The Gleanntan Slide / The Gleannán / Chris Kieran's Jig / Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also as strathspey on JOS 2)
51 Tune Info
493		 Hpipe Derry Hornpipe, The / The Derry / The Londonderry Hornpipe / Delaney's Favorite / Showman's Clog / The Ladies Hornpipe / The Liverpool Hornpipe / Cash's Hornpipe (also with from 2 to 6 parts in various orders)
2 Tune Info
429		 Hpipe Cuckoo's Nest, The / Cuckoo's Nest / The Cuckoo's Nest 2nd Setting / Cuckoo's Nest No. 1 / Jacky Tar / The Mower / An Spealadóir / The Scythesman / The Man that Cuts the Hay with the Scythe / Come Ashore Jolly Tar and Your Trousers On / The Showman's Fancy / Rogha Fhear an tSéo / City Life - a Clog / Violetta (also with 2nd and 3rd parts reversed) (compare #430, compare the 2-part versions #431 and #1256, and compare as song #428)
61 Tune Info
1974		 Air Trip We Took over the Mountain, The / The Trip over the Mountain / The Trip o'er the Mountain / Will You Come with Me over the Mountain / Over the Mountain / The Dark Woman of the Glen (also as waltz)
71 Tune Info
1275		 Reel Merry Sisters, The / Merry Sister's / The Merry Sisters of Fate (compare 1st 2 parts with reel Dan McCarthy's Fancy / Dan McCarty's Fancy / Country Girl's Fortune included here and with Twin Sisters #1984 and with Gan Ainm #3503; compare 2nd and 3rd parts with The Shepherd's Daughter #1763; compare 3rd part with 1st part of Traveller #3099)
2 Tune Info
287		 Reel Castle Kelly / Castlekelly / Kelly's Castle / Caisleán Uí Cheallaigh / Cumar na Cathrach / Cumar na Catrach / Castle Kelly's / [mislabeled on SE 5 as:] Music in the Forge (also 1st part or both parts singled)
3 Tune Info
1382		 Reel Forge Music, The / Music in the Forge / The Music of the Forge / Ceol na gCeártan /Ceol Na gCeartan / [mislabeled on SE 5 as:] Castle Kelly (also singled) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel #1050)
81 Tune Info
988		 Hpipe Johnny Cope / Jonny Cope / Johnnie Cope (also as 2-part march or as song) (compare distantly #3741)
91 Tune Info
1636		 Reel Rainy Day, The / A Rainy Day / An Lá Báistî (mislabeled as The Merry Blacksmith on SE 4) (wide range of settings are played today) (compare Peter Flanagan's #1572)
2 Tune Info
1677		 Reel Tear the Calico / Rip the Calico / The Fair Wind / A Fair Wind / Fair Wind / The Blue Meadow / Burren Reel / West Clare Reel / Tommy Glenny's Reel (3rd in set Kilfenora Reels on KCB 3; 3rd in set West Clare Reels on Chlr; mislabeled as I Have No Money on CTL 3; as untitled Reel on Dnu 1; 3rd in set Out on the Road on Drv 5) (also in G, also with parts doubled, also with 1st part last, also with 2nd part last) (compare Tear the Calico #2106)
101 Tune Info
664		 Piece Fox Chase, The / The Fox Hunt / The Irish Fox Hunt / Fiach an Mhadra Rua / An Madradhín Ruadh / An Madradhín Ruad / An Madradin Ruadh (contains The Foxhunter's Jig #668) (compare Paddy Moloney's medley The Foxhunt included here and the English tune The Little Red Fox)
2 Tune Info
668		 JigSl Foxhunter's Jig, The / The Fox Hunter's Jig / The Foxhunters' Jig / Foxhunters' Jig / The Foxhunters' / The Fox Hunter / The Jolly Foxhunters (also as close of An Madradhín Ruadh / The Fox Chase #664; in set Chasing the Fox on Ch BIH) (also in G; a widespread alternate setting is in G without 1st part or 4th part, as on MC and in some later sources; also as double jig on Ch 2) (compare Humors of Derrycrosane #855)
111 Tune Info
214		 Reel Braes of Busby, The (also all 3 parts doubled or all 3 parts singled) (compare Colonel Fraser #360)
11(1:16)2 Tune Info
360		 Reel Colonel Fraser / Colonel Frazer / Colonel Frazier / An Coirnéal Frazer / Green Fields of Ireland (also with each part doubled, also with 5th part, also without 3rd part) (compare Donaghmore #526, West Wind #2049, Braes of Busby #214, and College Groves #358)
121 Tune Info
1023		 JigSl Kid on the Mountain, The / An Mionnán ar an Sliabh / An Meannán ar an Sliabh (also with only 4 parts including a different 4th part, or with an additional 6th part, also as song The Bottle of Wine) (mislabeled as The Ballintore Fancy on some BB 2 reissues)
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