Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1424 (Nine Points of Roguery)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel64AABBCCBBD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Nine Points of Roguery
 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 2 (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):
Nine Points of Roguery, The / Naoi nArda na Rógaireachta / The Nine Points to Roguery / The Black Mare of Fanad / The Kiltyfanad Reel (compare Doon Reel #319)
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
~19766#1[TP 2] Tommy Peoples and Paul Brady. The High Part of the Road. Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Paul Brady (guitar).View album details
19772#1[JD 4] John Doherty. Bundle and Go. John Doherty (fiddle).View album details
20063#1[NNW] Eliot Grasso and Dave Cory. North-by-NorthWest. Eliot Grasso (pipes, flute), Dave Cory (banjo, guitar, octave mandolin).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 #264 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #26 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On pages 202-203 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As tune #50 in [DM 1] Dave Mallinson. 100 Essential Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As reel #246 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [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): 1965
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