Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#180 (Blooming Meadows)
about these two barsThese two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording SE 5 (details in the Discography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double jig | 48 | AABBCC | G Major |
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Blooming Meadows, The / An Móinéar Bláfar / The Blooming Meadow / Down with the Tithes / Down the Hill / Hag and Her Praskeen / Humors of Milltown / The Silver Tip / The Green Hills of Armagh (also without 3rd part in older books) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of High Part of the Road #2653)
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 10 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1.13#1 | [SltSdt] Seoltaí Séidte. Setting Sail. Joe Devlin (fiddle). |
| ~1978 | 2#1 | [SE 5] Seamus Ennis. The Fox Chase. Seamus Ennis (pipes). |
| ~1998 | 6#1 | [TP 7] Tommy Peoples. The Quiet Glen / An Gleann Ciúin. Tommy Peoples (fiddle). |
| ~2002 | 12#3 | [Fns] Feenish. Rabharta. P.J. Hernon (accordion), Marcus Hernon (flute, whistle), Don Stiffe (vocals, guitar, whistle). |
| ~2002 | 2#1 | [TMIYD] Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin. Touch Me If You Dare. Ronan Browne (pipes, flute), Peter O'Loughlin (fiddle, flute). For this tune: Peter O'Loughlin (Eb flute), Maeve Donnelly (fiddle). |
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 #917 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. |
| As tune #918 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. |
| As tune #304 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. |
| As tune #115 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. |
| On page 42 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. |
| As jig #48 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music. |
| As jig #10 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. |
| As jig #91 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. |
| As tune #239 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