Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2011 (Up and Away)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Polka32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Up and Away
 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 MC (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):
Up and Away / Up & Away / McKenna's Polka 1 (1st in set Casey's on MC; 3rd in set Oh! The Breeches Full of Stitches on Ch 7) (also in A or D) (compare tune included here for 2nd and 4th times during 4th figure of dance Orange and Green in book R)
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
~19241.17#1[MC] Michael Coleman. Michael Coleman 1891-1945. Michael Coleman (fiddle).View album details
~197710#3[Ch 7] The Chieftains. 7. Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle, bones), Seán Keane (fiddle, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle, bones), Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, oboe), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán).View album details
~20061.16#3[WFO 3] various. Wooden Flute Obsession 3. View album details
~20078#2[Hmdgr] Paul Brock and Enda Scahill. Humdinger. Paul Brock (accordion), Enda Scahill (banjo, mandolin).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 #297#4 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
On page 136 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #85 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 30 of [T] Fintan Vallely. Timber. The Flute Tutor. 2nd Edition. [available]
As tune #60 in [IBPS] Pat Conway. Ireland's Best Polkas and Slides. [available]
On page 301 of [CITM] Fintan Vallely. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. [available]
On page 239 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As polka #38 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [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): 1924
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