Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1084 (Lament for Staker Wallace)
| Rhythm ? | Mode ? |
|---|---|
| Air | G Major |
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 / Staker Wallace / Bean Dubh an Gleanna (1st in set The Green Hills of Tyrol on AbsIr)
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). |
|---|---|---|
| ~1959 | 5#1 | [LR 2] Leo Rowsome. The King of the Pipers. Leo Rowsome (pipes). |
| ~1976 | 3#1 | [MM 1] Matt Molloy accompanied by Dónal Lunny. Matt Molloy. Matt Molloy (flute). |
| 1990 | 7#1 | [MLIIA] various. The Boston College Irish Fiddle Festival - My Love Is in America. |
| 1995 | 9#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). |
| ~1996 | 11#1 | [ST] Seamus Tansey. Easter Snow. Seamus Tansey (flute). |
| ~1998 | 10#1 | [KR] Kevin Rowsome. The Rowsome Tradition. Kevin Rowsome (pipes). |
| 2007 | 5#1 | [AbsIr] various. Absolutely Irish. Mac Benford (banjo, vocals), Darrah Carr (feet), Liz Carroll (fiddle), Karan Casey (vocals), Brendan Dolan (piano), John Doyle (guitar, bouzouki, vocals), Seamus Egan (banjo, flute), Eileen Ivers (fiddle), Rhys Jones (fiddle, guitar, vocals), Joanie Madden (flute, whistle), Billy McComiskey (accordion), Susan McKeown (vocals), Mick Moloney (banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals), Robbie O'Connell (vocals, guitar), Niall O'Leary (feet), Jerry O'Sullivan (pipes, whistle), Mike Rafferty (flute), Athena Tergis (fiddle). |
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. |
| On page 37 of [TOC] Tomás Ó Canainn. Traditional Music in Ireland. |
| As tune #98 in [SIMB] Tony Sullivan. Sully's Irish Music Book. |
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