Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1684 (Road to Lisdoonvarna)
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide | 32 | AABB | E Dorian |
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 3 (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Road to Lisdoonvarna, The / All the Ways to Galway / The Galway Girls / March of the Tribes to Galway / Sarsfield March / Slash away the Pressing Gang (appears as break during song The Ball of Yarn on LLPQ 2) (compare as clan march Mc Namara's March / Hy Caisin included here)
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). |
|---|---|---|
| ~1973 | 7#3 | [Ch 3] The Chieftains. 3. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones). |
| 2003 | 8(0:59)#2 | [LLPQ 2] The London Lasses and Pete Quinn. Track Across the Deep. Karen Ryan (fiddle, whistle), Elaine Conwell (fiddle), Dee Havlin (flute, whistle), Maureen Linane (accordion), Kathleen O'Sullivan (vocals). |
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 #323 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. |
| On page 46 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. |
| As tune #84 in volume 4 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols. |
| As tune #22 in volume 1 of [LPTW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle. |
| On page 231 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. |
| As tune #69 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. |
| As tune #110 in [IBPS] Pat Conway. Ireland's Best Polkas and Slides. |
| As slide #27 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): 1927