Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1438 (O'Carolan's Receipt for Drinking)
| Type ? | Mode ? |
|---|---|
| Piece | G Major |
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 Ch 7 (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
O'Carolan's Receipt for Drinking / Carolan's Receipt for Drinking / Planxty Stafford (3rd in set Away We Go Again on Ch 7)
Discography
Here is the sole recording of this tune considering only the indexed recordings.
| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| ~1977 | 1#3 | [Ch 7] The Chieftains. 7. Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle, bones), Seán Keane (fiddle, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle, bones), Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, oboe), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán). |
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 recording listed above.
| As tune #634 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. |
| On page 74 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. |
| As tune #317 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. |
| On page 228 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. |
| As ocar #2 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. |
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