Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 115 (Bank of Turf)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Double jig32AABBD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Bank of Turf
 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 TP 4 (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):
Bank of Turf, The / Tom Billy's (as Gan Aimn [sic] on JWh 2) (also as slide)
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
~19822#1[TP 4] Tommy Peoples. The Iron Man. Tommy Peoples (fiddle).View album details
19997#1[JWh 2] John Whelan. Celtic Roots. John Whelan (accordion).View album details
~20062.14#4[WFO 3] various. Wooden Flute Obsession 3. 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 #48 in volume 4 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 13 of [TP] Tommy Peoples. Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes. [available]
On page 123 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As slide #2 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #5 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. [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): 1974
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