Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1712 (P.J. Moloney's)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Hornpipe32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of P.J. Moloney'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 TDMI (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):
P.J. Moloney's / P.J. Moloney's Hornpipe / P.J. Maloney's / Ryan's / Sean Ryan's Favourite / Sean Ryan's Hornpipe / Sean Ryans 'C' / Paddy O'Brien's / O'Brien's Hornpipe / Fallon's Hornpipe (composed by Seán Ryan)
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
~195837#2[TDMI] various. Traditional Dance Music of Ireland. View album details
~199612#1[JB 3] Joe Burke, Charlie Lennon. The Bucks of Oranmore. Joe Burke (accordion), Charlie Lennon (piano).View album details
~19968#2[ST] Seamus Tansey. Easter Snow. Seamus Tansey (flute).View album details
~20023#1[BRny 2] Brian Rooney. Leitrim to London. Brian Rooney (fiddle, accordion).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.

On page 121 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #75 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #24 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #84 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
On page 19 of [SR] Brian Ryan. The Hidden Ireland. The First Selection of Irish Traditional Compositions of Seán Ryan. [available]
As tune #272 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [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): 1958
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