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.
| 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