Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1133 (Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine)

Rhythm8-bar phrase structureMode
HornpipeAABBE Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording GD (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine / Bonaparte's March / The Listowel Hornpipe / From Galway to Dublin / Port Mhoss Martin (also in A; also as highland fling as 2nd tune in set Up the Hill of Down on FBros) (compare as march Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine #193, as song #1122, and compare Harvey Street Hornpipe #2433)
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
19291#1[GD] various. From Galway to Dublin. Early Recordings of Traditional Irish Music. View album details
19298#2[FBros] The Flanagan Brothers. The Tunes We Like to Play on Paddy's Day. Joe Flanagan (accordion), Louis Flanagan (guitar, banjo), Mike Flanagan (banjo, vocals, mandolin).View album details
20013#2[JCrv] John Creaven. The Story So Far. John Creaven (flute).View album details
~200615#2[JOSe] Jimmí Ó Sé. Malairt Poirt ó Fionntrá. Jimmí Ó Sé (accordion, vocals).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 #231 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
On page 207 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 199 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.

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
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