Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1313 (Miss Patterson's Slipper)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBE Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Miss Patterson's Slipper
 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 HG (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):
Miss Patterson's Slipper / Miss Patterson's Slippers / Miss Patterson / Master Crowley's / Master Crowley's No. 1 / Master Crowley / Master Crowley's Reel / Crowley's Reel / Shark's Favorite / Clarke's Favorite / John Bowe's / Na Coinnle Corra / The Bluebells / Raymond Roland's (1st in alternating pair of tunes labeled Miss Patterson's Slippers on JD 4; 1st in set Miss Patterson's Slippers on Beg 1) (also played 1st part single, or both parts single; also in D Dorian) (compare John Doherty setting #4686)
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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
193510#3[GD] various. From Galway to Dublin. Early Recordings of Traditional Irish Music. View album details
19373#1[HG] Hugh Gillespie. Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. Hugh Gillespie (fiddle).View album details
19717#1[TPtts] Tommy Potts. The Liffey Banks. Tommy Potts (fiddle).View album details
197714#1[JD 4] John Doherty. Bundle and Go. John Doherty (fiddle).View album details
~19804#1[JKn 1] James Keane. Roll Away the Reel World. James Keane (accordion).View album details
~19884#1[LC 2] Liz Carroll. Liz Carroll. Liz Carroll (fiddle).View album details
~19969#1[JB 3] Joe Burke, Charlie Lennon. The Bucks of Oranmore. Joe Burke (accordion), Charlie Lennon (piano).View album details
~19962.17#1[GL20] various. Green Linnet Records. The Twentieth Anniversary Collection. View album details
199712#2[Beg 1] Beginish. Beginish. Paul McGrattan (flute), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Brendan Begley (accordion, vocals), Noel O'Grady (bouzouki).View album details
~20075#2[KB ABR] Kevin Burke and Cal Scott. Across the Black River. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Cal Scott (guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, mountain dulcimer).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 #1407 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #227 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #44 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 133 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As reel #81 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #71 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
On page 16 of [SK] Sean Keane. Fifty Fiddle Solos. [available]
On page 44 of [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition.
On page 72 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #200 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #143 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): 1903