Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1741 (Sean Maguire's)

Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel16ABE Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Sean Maguire'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 A B (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Sean Maguire's / The Gatehouse Maid (compare 1st part with 1st part of Nine Pint Coggie #3625)

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this tune considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune?		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19962#3[A B] Altan. Blackwater. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle, vocals), Dermot Byrne (accordion), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki, guitar-bouzouki), Mark Kelly (guitar, vocals), Dáithi Sproule (guitar, vocals).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 recording listed above.

As reel #199 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [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): 1996
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