Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1451 (O'Keeffe's Slide)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Slide32AABBA Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of O'Keeffe's Slide
 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 KF (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):
O'Keeffe's Slide / O'Keefe's Slide / Dan O'Keeffe's Slide / Dan O'Keefe's Slide 2 / Dan O'Keeffe's No. 1 / Dan O'Keefe's / Danny Ab's / Danny Ab's Slide No. 1 / Denis Murphy (also in E) (2nd part same as 2nd part of #3310)
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
19526#2[KF] Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford. Kerry Fiddles. Padraig O'Keefe (fiddle), Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).View album details
~19696#2[SatG] Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. The Star above the Garter. Fiddle music from Kerry, played by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).View album details
~197312#1[Ch 4] The Chieftains. 4. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones).View album details
20075#2[Aths 1] Áthas. Áthas. Heather Lewin-Tiarks (fiddle, viola, cello), Amy Richter (bodhrán, djembe, whistle), Jeff Ksiazek (guitar, whistle, flute).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 #86 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #57 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #18#2 in volume 1 of [AW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle.
On page 47 of [RW] Robin Williamson. The Penny Whistle Book. [available]
On page 205 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As slide #11 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 25 of [T] Fintan Vallely. Timber. The Flute Tutor. 2nd Edition. [available]
As tune #26 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As tune #177 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
As tune #61 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As other #5 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
As slide #23 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): 1952
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