Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1763 (Shepherd's Daughter)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel16ABA Mixolydian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Shepherd's Daughter
 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 RS (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):
Shepherd's Daughter, The / The Sheperds Flock [The Shepherd's Flock] / Major Moran's (1st in set John Doherty's Reels on A RS) (compare 2nd and 3rd parts of Merry Sisters #1275, compare 1st part with 1st part of Traveller #3099 and with 1st part of #3165)
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
~19898#2[CmA 1] various. The Coleman Archive Vol. 1: The Living Tradition. View album details
~199210#2[CTL 3] Cherish the Ladies. The Back Door. Mary Coogan (guitar, banjo), Siobhan Egan (fiddle, bodhrán), Eileen Golden (feet), Winifred Horan (fiddle, dance), Maureen Doherty Macken [Mary Rafferty] (accordion, flute), Joanie Madden (flute, whistle), Cathie Ryan (vocals), Linnane Wick (dance).View album details
19972#1[A RS] Altan. Runaway Sunday. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Dermot Byrne (accordion), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle, vocals), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki, mandolin, vocals), Mark Kelly (guitar, vocals), Dáithi Sproule (guitar, vocals).View album details
~20026(1:40)#2[Boh 3] Bohola. Bohola. Jimmy Keane (piano accordion), Sean Cleland (fiddle, viola, baritone fiddle), Pat Broaders (dordan, bouzouki, 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 recordings listed above.

As tune #230 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
On page 105 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #13 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As reel #119 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

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): 1968
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