Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1574 (Peter Street)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBA Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Peter Street
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of the transcription in the book 1850 (details in the Bibliography 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):
Peter Street / Sráid Pheadair / Timour the Tartar / Miller's Frolics (also in G; also in D Major as 2nd tune in pastiche Nano's Favorites on WW 2) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Oh Gee #4937)
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
192620(1:19)#2[WW 2] various. The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 2. View album details
~200012#2[EOR] Eoin Ó Riabhaigh. Tiomnacht. Handed On. Eoin Ó Riabhaigh (pipes).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 #1325 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #803 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #169 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
On page 119 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 277 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
In [L] Alan's private loose music.
On page 52 of [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition.
On page 83 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #270 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): 1903
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