Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1672 (Richard Dwyer's Reel)

Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel32AABBA Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Richard Dwyer's Reel
 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 PCt (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Richard Dwyer's Reel / [misspelled as:] Richard Dwyers / Richie Dwyer's Reel / Michael Dwyer (composed by Richie Dwyer)

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
~19755#1[PCt] Paddy Carty. Traditional Irish Music. Paddy Carty (flute).View album details
~19938#1[MB 2] Mary Bergin. Feadóga Stáin 2. Mary Bergin (whistle).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 #31 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #2 in [P50] Brian and Eithne Vallely. Play 50 Reels. [available]
On page 90 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #287 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #241 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. [available]
As reel #185 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): 1974
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