Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#181 (King's Favourite)
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double jig | 32 | AABB | Bb Major |
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 SK 2 (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
King's Favourite, The / King's Fancy / Kings Fancy / The Blue Angel / Liam King's Jig (also in D) (composed by Liam King, but only according to book JKg 3, which is not reliable)
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). |
|---|---|---|
| ~1980 | A.2#2 | [Boys 8] Boys of the Lough. Regrouped. Aly Bain (fiddle), Cathal McConnell (flute), Dave Richardson (), Tich Richardson (guitar). |
| ~1990 | 11#1 | [SK 2] Seán Keane. Jig It in Style. Seán Keane (fiddle). |
| ~1991 | 8#2 | [GOC 1] Gerry O'Connor. Time to Time. Gerry O'Connor (banjo, guitar, fiddle). |
| ~1997 | 12#2 | [GL1] various. The Dance Music of Ireland. Jigs and Reels. |
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.
| On page 25 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. |
| As jig #124 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. |
| As jig #109 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): 1974