Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1322 (Mist-Covered Mountain)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Double jig32AABBA Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Mist-Covered Mountain
 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 DD 3 (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):
Mist-Covered Mountain, The / The Mist Covered Mountain / Mist Covered Mountain / "Mist Covered" Mountain / The Mist Covered Mountains / Mist on the Mountain / Misty Mountain (1st in set Tell Her I Am on MSHTn 1) (also in G) (composed by Junior Crehan)
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
~197614#2[MM 1] Matt Molloy accompanied by Dónal Lunny. Matt Molloy. Matt Molloy (flute).View album details
~19801#2[DD 3] Dé Danann. Mist Covered Mountain. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, viola, whistle), Jackie Daly (accordion), Charlie Piggott (banjo, mandolin, steel guitar), Alec Finn (bouzouki, mandocello, steel guitar), Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh (bodhrán, bones).View album details
~198411#2[KB UC] Kevin Burke. Up Close. Kevin Burke (fiddle).View album details
199210#3[MH 1] Martin Hayes. Martin Hayes. Martin Hayes (fiddle).View album details
199811#2[Lgcy] Legacy. Navan. Don Penzien (guitar, vocals, whistle), Valerie Plested (fiddle), Beth Patterson (bouzouki, vocals), Justin Murphy (flute, whistle).View album details
~199912#2[PF] Patty Furlong. Traditional Irish Music on Button Accordion. Patty Conway Furlong (accordion).View album details
~20032#1[MSHtn 1] Matt and Shannon Heaton. Dearga. Shannon Heaton (flute, whistle, vocals), Matt Heaton (guitar, vocals, bodhrán, dobro, electric guitar).View album details
~20031.8#2[WFO 2] various. Wooden Flute Obsession 2. 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 #61 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #68 in [DM 3] Dave Mallinson. 100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 165 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As jig #77 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As jig #107 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]
As tune #175 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [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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