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Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1719 (Salamanca)
about these two barsThese two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording DC1 (details in the Discography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reel | 32 | AABB | D Major |
Salamanca, The / Salamanca / The Salamanca Reel / Wild Salamanca / The Wild Salamanca / The Salamancha / Salamango / Salamander / The Salamander / The Tartan Plaid / The Maigue's Tide / The Coronation Reel / The Coronation
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.
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to hear the first 12 seconds.
to hear the first 12 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 13#1 | [JKm] John J. Kimmel. John J. Kimmel. Early Recordings of Irish Traditional Dance Music. John J. Kimmel (accordion). |
| 1929 | 2.18#2 | [PJConlon] Peter J. Conlon. The Genius of Peter Conlon. 78 RPM Recordings from 1917-1929. Peter J. Conlon (melodeon). For this tune: with Walter Lally (banjo). |
| 1929 | 19#2 | [OTUS2] Oldtime Records. Vol. 2. U.S. Recordings. Traditional Irish Recordings from 1923 to 1947. P.J. Conlon (melodeon), Walter Lally (banjo). |
| 1931 | 18#3 | [IDM 1] Irish Dance Music. Siams Gaedheal Ceilidhe Band. |
| 1946 | 6#1 | [IDM 2] Past Masters of Irish Dance Music. Moate Ceilidhe Band. |
| 1948 | 12#1 | [SE 6] Séamus Ennis. The Return from Fingal. Séamus Ennis (pipes, vocals). For this tune: (pipes). |
| ~1953 | 23#1 | [TDMI] Traditional Dance Music of Ireland. Johnny Doherty (fiddle). |
| ~1967 | 15#1 | [PKlly] Patrick Kelly. Patrick Kelly From Cree. Fiddle Music. Patrick Kelly (fiddle). |
| 1971 | 16#1 | [DC1] The Drones and the Chanters. Irish Pipering. Tommy Reck. |
| ~1971 | 6#1 | [BC 3] Bobby Casey. The Spirit of West Clare. Bobby Casey (fiddle, whistle). |
| 1974 | 1#1 | [JD 3] John Doherty. The Celebrated Recordings. John Doherty (fiddle, vocals). |
| 1975 | 14#1 | [BB 1] The Bothy Band. 1975. The First Album. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Donal Lunny (bouzouki, vocals), Tríona Ni Dhomhnaill (harpsichord, bodhrán, vocals), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (guitar, vocals). |
| 1975 | 1#1 | [BB 5] The Bothy Band. The Best of the Bothy Band. |
| ~1976 | 9#1 | [TP 2] Tommy Peoples and Paul Brady. The High Part of the Road. Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Paul Brady (guitar). |
| ~1977 | 10#1 | [SE 4] Séamus Ennis. Forty Years of Irish Piping. Seamus Ennis (pipes except where whistle or vocals noted). |
| ~1978 | 10#2 | [Dbl] Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan. Doublin'. Paddy Glackin (fiddle, viola), Paddy Keenan (pipes). |
| 1987 | 31#1 | [WmSullvn] William Sullivan. Traditional Irish Music. William Sullivan (accordion). |
| ~1988 | 10#1 | [NH 1] Noel Hill. The Irish Concertina. Noel Hill (concertina). |
| 1990 | 9#1 | [MLIIA] The Boston College Irish Fiddle Festival - My Love Is in America. Séamus Connolly, Brendan Mulvihill. |
| ~1996 | 3#1 | [SWlsh 3] Seamus Walshe. Clare Accordion. Seamus Walshe (accordion). For this tune: with Brendan Larrissey (fiddle). |
| ~1997 | 8#3 | [NaCnn 1] Na Connerys. Celtic Sessions. Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Kevin Glackin (fiddle), Sean Og Potts (pipes, whistle), John Regan (accordion), John Wynne (flute), Tom McDonagh (bouzouki), Mark Kelly (guitar). |
| ~1998 | 2.5#1 | [ESL 1] An Evening in Sliabh Luachra. Volume One. A Collection of Traditional Music and Song from the Sliabh Luachra Area. Carmel O'Leary (whistle), Emma O'Leary (fiddle). |
| ~1998 | 13#2 | [KH] Kieran Hanrahan. Kieran Hanrahan Plays the Irish Tenor Banjo. Kieran Hanrahan (banjo). |
Bibliography
Here are all transcriptions of this tune 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 #1348 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. |
| As tune #603 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. |
| As tune #134 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. |
| As tune #209 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. |
| As tune #39 in [A] Hugh McDermott. Allan's "Irish Fiddler." |
| As tune #146 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1. |
| On page 32 of [LPUP] Eithne and Brian Vallely. Learn to Play the Uilleann Pipes. |
| On page 123 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. |
| As tune #47 in [LPF] Eithne and Brian Vallely. Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club. |
| On page 28 of [TP] Tommy Peoples. Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes. |
| As tune #8 in [DM 1] Dave Mallinson. 100 Essential Irish Session Tunes. |
| On page 55 of [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition. |
| On page 93 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition. |
| As reel #301 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. |
| As tune #94 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. |
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