Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1313 (Miss Patterson's Slipper)
about these two barsThese two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording HG (details in the Discography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reel | 32 | AABB | E Dorian |
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 set Master Crowley's Reels on HG and IFM; 1st in alternating pair of tunes labeled Miss Patterson's Slippers on JD 4 and labeled Miss Patterson's Slipper on NMCMM and in book NF; 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)
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.
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to hear the first 10 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 10#3 | [GD] From Galway to Dublin. Early Recordings of Traditional Irish Music. Eleanor Kane (piano). |
| 1937 | 3#1 | [HG] Hugh Gillespie. Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. Hugh Gillespie (fiddle). |
| 1937 | 23#1 | [IFM] Past Masters of Irish Fiddle Music. Hugh Gillespie (fiddle). |
| 1971 | 7#1 | [TPtts] Tommy Potts. The Liffey Banks. Tommy Potts (fiddle). |
| 1977 | 14#1 | [JD 4] John Doherty. Bundle and Go. John Doherty (fiddle). |
| ~1980 | 4#1 | [JKn 1] James Keane. Roll Away the Reel World. James Keane (accordion). |
| ~1980 | 14#1 | [BigSq] The Big Squeeze. Masters of the Celtic Accordion. James Keane (accordion). |
| ~1988 | 4#1 | [LC 2] Liz Carroll. Liz Carroll. Liz Carroll (fiddle). |
| ~1994 | 2#2 | [NMCMM] The Northern Meeting. Celtic Music in Milwaukee. Maria Terres (fiddle). |
| ~1996 | 9#1 | [JB 4] Joe Burke, Charlie Lennon. The Bucks of Oranmore. Joe Burke (accordion), Charlie Lennon (piano). |
| ~1996 | 2.17#1 | [GL20] Green Linnet Records. The Twentieth Anniversary Collection. Joe Burke. |
| 1997 | 12#2 | [Beg 1] Beginish. Beginish. Paul McGrattan (flute), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Brendan Begley (accordion, vocals), Noel O'Grady (bouzouki). |
| ~2007 | 5#2 | [KB ABR] Kevin Burke and Cal Scott. Across the Black River. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Cal Scott (guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, mountain dulcimer). |
Bibliography
Here are all transcriptions of this tune 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. |
| 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. |
| On page 71 of [NF] Allen Feldman. The Northern Fiddler. |
| As reel #81 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music. |
| As tune #71 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. |
| On page 16 of [SK] Sean Keane. Fifty Fiddle Solos. |
| 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. |
| As tune #143 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. |
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