Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2171 (Green Garters)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel16ABD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Green Garters
 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 BBow 2 (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):
Green Garters, The / Green Garters / Bearr an Veilbhit / The Blacksmith's Daughter (also with a 3rd part) (barely different from Blacksmith's Reel #2161)
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
19876#3[BBow 2] Buttons and Bows. The First Month of Summer. Séamus McGuire (fiddle, viola), Manus McGuire (fiddle), Jackie Daly (accordion, concertina, whistle).View album details
~19904#3[DMa] Declan Masterson. Deireadh an Fhómhair. End of the Harvest. Declan Masterson (pipes, whistle).View album details
19922(7:12)#5[BMu 2] Brendan Mulvihill, Donna Long. The Morning Dew. Brendan Mulvihill (fiddle), Donna Long (piano).View album details
~200011#2[COC] Connie O'Connell. Ceol Cill na Martra (Music from Cill Na Martra). Connie O'Connell (fiddle).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 #1478 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #706 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
On page 147 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As reel #374 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As reel #81 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [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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