Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1084 (Lament for Staker Wallace)

RhythmMode
AirG Major
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Lament for Staker Wallace, The / Lament for the Death of Staker Wallace / The Death of Staker Wallace / Bean Dubh an Gleanna
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
~19595#1[LR 2] Leo Rowsome. The King of the Pipers. Leo Rowsome (pipes).View album details
~19763#1[MM 1] Matt Molloy accompanied by Dónal Lunny. Matt Molloy. Matt Molloy (flute).View album details
19907#1[MLIIA] various. The Boston College Irish Fiddle Festival - My Love Is in America. View album details
1991[2] various. Alan's other personal audiocassettes.
19959#1[EI 2] Eileen Ivers. Wild Blue. Eileen Ivers (fiddle), John Doyle (guitar), Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk (organ, accordion, guitar, bass), Ben Wittman (drums), Kimati Dinizulu (percussion).View album details
~199611#1[ST] Seamus Tansey. Easter Snow. Seamus Tansey (flute).View album details
~199810#1[KR] Kevin Rowsome. The Rowsome Tradition. Kevin Rowsome (pipes).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 #58 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
On page 37 of [TOC] Tomás Ó Canainn. Traditional Music in Ireland. [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): 1927