Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1876 (Tap Room)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBE Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Tap Room
 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 AIC1 (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):
Tap Room, The / In the Tap Room / The Taproom / An Seomra Leanna / The Tap House / The Youngest Daughter / The Hard Road to Travel / The Ranting Widow / Baintreach na Radaireacht / Captain Murray's Reel / Captain Murray's / Sweet Molly / Polly's Reel / Polly's / The Blossom of the New Tree / The Lady's Top Dress / The Ladies Top Dress / Hopetoun House / Lord Edward / Fitzgerald's / Fitzgerald's Reel / Granshaw Glens / Roll Out the Barrel / The Rakes of Abbey / Miss Fargherson's New Reel / Miss Fargerson's New Reel / The Scotch Bonnet / Scotch Maggie / A Short Way to Heaven / Cock Your Pistol, Charlie / The Mountain Lark (1st in The Taproom Set on CLnn 2) (also in a somewhat different setting included here which is always singled) (compare single jig Cock Your Pistol, Charlie #3024; compare 1st part with 1st part of Mountain Lark #2529)
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
19295#1[WW 1] various. The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 1. View album details
192919#1[BtB] Paddy Killoran, James Morrison. From Ballymote to Brooklyn. Paddy Killoran (fiddle), James Morrison (fiddle).View album details
~19591#2[AIC1] Paddy Canny, P.J. Hayes, Peadar O'Loughlin, Bridie Lafferty. An Historic Recording of Irish Traditional Music from County Clare and East Galway. Paddy Canny (fiddle), P.J. Hayes (fiddle).View album details
~195910#2[AIC2] Paddy Canny. Meet Paddy Canny. All-Ireland Champion - Violin. Paddy Canny (fiddle).View album details
~197912#3[MB 1] Mary Bergin. Feadóga Stáin. Traditional Irish Music on the Tin Whistle. Mary Bergin (whistle).View album details
~198011#2[DD 3] Dé Danann. Mist Covered Mountain. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, viola, whistle), Jackie Daly (accordion), Charlie Piggott (banjo, mandolin, steel guitar), Alec Finn (bouzouki, mandocello, steel guitar), Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh (bodhrán, bones).View album details
~19937#2[Shskn] Shaskeen. My Love Is in America. Tom Cussen (banjo), Benny O'Connor (drums, bodhrán), Sean Conway (flute, whistle, guitar, vocals), Charlie Harris (accordion), Kevin Rohan (fiddle, vocals).View album details
199810#2[KB IC] Kevin Burke. In Concert. Kevin Burke (fiddle).View album details
~19985#2[MvC 2] Moving Cloud. Foxglove. Paul Brock (accordion), Maeve Donnelly (fiddle), Manus McGuire (fiddle), Kevin Crawford (flute, whistle, bodhrán), Carl Hession (piano).View album details
~19984#1[MMR 2] Mike and Mary Rafferty. The Old Fireside Music. Mike Rafferty (flute, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, whistle).View album details
~19981.13#1[WFO 1] various. Wooden Flute Obsession. View album details
19994#3[RBys] Randal Bays. The Salmon's Leap. Randal Bays (fiddle, guitar).View album details
200013#2[KC 2] Kevin Crawford. In Good Company. Kevin Crawford (flute, whistle).View album details
~20041#1[OMcD] Oisín Mac Diarmada. Ar an bhFidil. Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle, whistle).View album details
~20071.15#1[CLnn 2] Charlie Lennon. Turning the Tune. Charlie Lennon (fiddle, viola, piano, harpsichord, bass, keyboards).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 #1217 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #494 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #177 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1.
As tune #292 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
On page 99 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As reel #129 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #32 in [DM 3] Dave Mallinson. 100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 53 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #357 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As reel #75 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]
As tune #70 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [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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