Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1869 (Sword in Hand)
about these two barsThese two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording CC (details in the Discography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reel | 16 | AB | E Dorian |
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Sword in Hand, The / An Claíomh i Láimh / Around the World for Sport / Round the World for Sport / The Cork Lasses / Cork Lasses / Conolon's Dream / Conlan's Dream / The Little Pig Lamenting the Empty Trough / Little Pig Lamenting the Empty Trough / Sally on the Shore (2nd in set Ollie Conway's Selection on CC) (compare Rambler in Cork #5026)
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). |
|---|---|---|
| ~1919 | 2#1 | [PT] Patsy Touhey. The Piping of Patsy Touhey. Patsy Touhey (pipes). |
| 1974 | 5#2 | [CC] Bernard O'Sullivan and Tommy McMahon. Clare Concertinas. Bernard O'Sullivan (concertina), Tommy McMahon (concertina) except where solos noted. For this tune: Tommy McMahon. |
| 1975 | 7#1 | [Chi] Traditional Irish Music in America. Chicago. John McGreevy (fiddle), Eleanor Neary (piano). |
| 1977 | 3#2 | [BB 3] The Bothy Band. Out of the Wind into the Sun. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Burke (fiddle), Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (vocals, keyboards), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán, synthesizer), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (guitar). |
| 1977 | 10#2 | [BB 5] The Bothy Band. The Best of the Bothy Band. |
| ~1978 | 2.18#2 | [GL20] Green Linnet Records. The Twentieth Anniversary Collection. Bothy Band. |
| ~1985 | 8#1 | [CW] Matt Molloy and Sean Keane. Contentment Is Wealth. Matt Molloy (flute), Sean Keane (fiddle). |
| 2002 | 10#2 | [LAC] Tom and Kerry Barrett. Lios A'Cheoil. Traditional Irish Music. Tom Barrett (fiddle), Kerry Barrett (fiddle). |
| ~2006 | 8#1 | [DCB 1] The Doon Céilí Band. Around the World for Sport. Paddy O'Brien (accordion), Kate Dowling (flute), Laura MacKenzie (flute), Brian Miller (flute), Jode Dowling (fiddle), Django Amerson (fiddle), Sean Egan (piano). |
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 #144 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1. |
| As tune #28 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols. |
| As tune #17 in [P50] Brian and Eithne Vallely. Play 50 Reels. |
| As tune #63 in [DM 3] Dave Mallinson. 100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes. |
| On page 105 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition. |
| As reel #4 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. |
| As reel #254 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): 1919