Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1734 (Scully Casey's)
about these two barsThese two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording BC 3 (details in the Discography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double jig | 32 | AABB | A Dorian |
Scully Casey's / Scully Casey's Jig / Scully's Jig / The Quilty Shore / Bobby Casey's / Bobby Caseys / The Merry Old Woman Jig / Unidentified (3rd in set Tenpenny Bit on Drv 5) (also in G Dorian, E Dorian, or A Mixolydian) (compare in Major as Merry Old Woman #1274) (composed by Bobby Casey, but only according to PCny and MOR sources, and in contradiction to the hereby demonstrated close relationship to tune #1274)
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.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 13#1 | [BC 3] Bobby Casey. The Spirit of West Clare. Bobby Casey (fiddle, whistle). |
| ~1979 | 2#1 | [Ev] Kevin Burke and Jackie Daly. Eavesdropper. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Jackie Daly (accordion, concertina). For this tune: Kevin Burke (fiddle), Jackie Daly (concertina). |
| ~1995 | 9#2 | [PCny] Paddy Canny. Traditional Music from the Legendary East Clare Fiddler. Paddy Canny (fiddle). |
| ~1998 | 2#1 | [LN 2] Laurence Nugent. Two for Two. Laurence Nugent (flute, whistle). For this tune: (flute), with Kevin Burke (fiddle). |
| ~1998 | 2.1#2 | [JCrehan] Junior Crehan. The Last House in Ballymakea. Junior Crehan (fiddle, vocals, concertina). For this tune: Junior Crehan (fiddle). |
| ~1999 | 3#3 | [Drv 5] Dervish. Midsummer's Night. Cathy Jordan (vocals, bodhrán, bones), Tom Morrow (fiddle, viola, vocals), Shane Mitchell (accordion), Liam Kelly (flute, whistle), Séamus O'Dowd (guitar, fiddle, harmonica, vocals), Michael Holmes (bouzouki), Brian McDonagh (mandola, mandolin, vocals). |
| 2000 | 1#1 | [MOR] Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh. The Nervous Man. Traditional Irish Music on Concertina. Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh (concertina). |
| ~2002 | 1#2 | [Boh 3] Bohola. Bohola. Jimmy Keane (piano accordion), Sean Cleland (fiddle, viola, baritone fiddle), Pat Broaders (dordan, bouzouki, vocals). |
| ~2002 | 7#3 | [CaBrdg] Niall and Cillian Vallely. Callan Bridge. Niall Vallely (concertina), Cillian Vallely (pipes, whistle). |
| ~2002 | 7#3 | [LitN] Christy Barry, Conor McCarthy, Cyril O'Donoghue. Late . . . in the Night. Christy Barry (flute, whistle, spoons), Conor McCarthy (accordion), Cyril O'Donoghue (bouzouki, guitar). |
| 2012 | 6#2 | [JKn 7] James Keane. Heir of the Dog. James Keane (accordion). |
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 #60 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols. |
| As tune #98 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. |
| On page 233 of [NF] Allen Feldman. The Northern Fiddler. |
| As jig #87 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. |
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): 1966