Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1718 (Sailor's Hornpipe)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Hornpipe32AABBD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Sailor's Hornpipe
 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 BFair (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):
Sailor's Hornpipe, The / The Sailors Hornpipe / Sailor's Hornpipe #2 / Sailor's Hornipe No. 2 / Rickett's Hornpipe / Rickett's / Ricket's Hornpipe / Manchester Hornpipe / The Manchester (compare College Hornpipe in Cole's)
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
19282#1[BFair] various. Ballinasloe Fair. Early Recordings of Irish Music in America. View album details
~195314#1[JDJO] Joe Derrane and Jerry O'Brien. Irish Accordion Masters. Joe Derrane (accordion), Jerry O'Brien (accordion).View album details
~20077#3[Hmdgr] Paul Brock and Enda Scahill. Humdinger. Paul Brock (accordion), Enda Scahill (banjo, mandolin).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 #1578 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #827 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #206 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #103 in [A] Hugh McDermott. Allan's "Irish Fiddler." [available]
On page 169 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 229 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic].
On page 212 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As hp #35 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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