Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1798 (Southwind)

RhythmMode
AirG Major
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Southwind / The South Wind / The Southern Breeze / The Wind from the South / An Ghaoth Aneas / An Gaoth Aneas / An Gaoth Andheas / Gaoith ua n-Dheas / I Have a Secret to Tell Thee (also in A or F; as song on GFA included here) (also in Dá mBeadh agam ór #3684) (composed by Donall Meidhreach Mac Conmara / Dómhnall Méirgeach Mac Con Mara ?)
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
~19738#1[Ch 3] The Chieftains. 3. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones).View album details
19884#1[GFA] The Green Fields of America. Live in Concert. Mick Moloney (banjo, mandolin, guitar, tres, vocals), Robbie O'Connell (guitar, vocals), Jimmy Keane (piano accordion, synthesizers, vocals), Eileen Ivers (fiddle), Seamus Egan (pipes, flute, whistle, bodhrán, tres).View album details
200017#1[Ch W] The Chieftains. Water from the Well. Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle, accordion), Derek Bell (harp, harpsichord, piano, tiompán), Seán Keane (fiddle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals), Matt Molloy (flute).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 #510 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #79 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #6 in volume 1 of [AW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle.
On page 263 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As waltz #5 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #91 in [DM 4] Dave Mallinson. 100 Vital Irish Session Tunes. [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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