Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1552 (Pat Ward's)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Single jig32AABBD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Pat Ward's
 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 SE 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):
Pat Ward's / Pat Ward's Jig / The Highlander's Kneebuckle / Búcla Glúine an Híleantóra / Leather Buttons / A Galway Reel (also as fling and reel, also in G) (compare jig Pathway to the Well #1553)
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
19713#1[DC1] various. The Drones and the Chanters. Irish Pipering. Séamus Ennis (pipes), Peadar Broe (pipes), Leo Rowsome (pipes), Paddy Moloney (pipes), Dan Dowd (pipes), Tommy Reck (pipes), Willie Clancy (pipes).View album details
~19737#2[SE 2] Seamus Ennis. The Pure Drop. Seamus Ennis (pipes).View album details
199412#2[MvC 1] Moving Cloud. Moving Cloud. Paul Brock (accordion), Maeve Donnelly (fiddle, viola), Manus McGuire (fiddle), Kevin Crawford (flute and percussion), Carl Hession (piano).View album details
~20064#2[JasCt] James Carty. Upon My Soul. James Carty (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 #1543 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #30 in [D&M] Arthur Warren Darley and Patrick Joseph McCall. The Darley and McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music. [available]
As tune #136 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #58 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #29 in volume 1 of [AW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle.
On page 160 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As sgjig #23 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [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): 1903
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