Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 231 (Brink of the White Rocks)

Type
Song
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Brink of the White Rocks, The / The Brink of the White Rock / Bruachna Carraige Báine / Bruach na Carraige Báine / Bruach na Carraige Baine / Is Truagh gan Oidhre 'nar bFharradh / Is Truagh gan Oidhre 'nar bhFharradh / The West's Asleep / The Lament for the Milesians (compare unusual versions #2550 and #3397)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19967#1[BC] Séamus Begley and Stephen Cooney. Meitheal. Séamus Begley (accordion, vocals), Stephen Cooney (guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, ditjeridú).View album details

Bibliography

Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order.

As tune #83 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #7 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #8 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [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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