Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 305 (Charlie Mulvihill's Reel)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Charlie Mulvihill's Reel
 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 KF (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):
Charlie Mulvihill's Reel / Charlie Mulvihill's / Charlie Mulvihill's No. 1 / Mulvihill's Reel / Muckross Abbey / O'Brien's / O'Briens / Murphy's / Murphy's Reel / Ríl Uí Mhurchú / Paddy Murphy's Wife / Sonny McDonagh's (3rd in set The Old School House on KCB 6) (composed by Charlie Mulvihill)
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
19523#1[KF] Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford. Kerry Fiddles. Padraig O'Keefe (fiddle), Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).View album details
~19716#1[AW] Paddy Reynolds, Charlie Mulvihill, James Keane, with Felix Dolan. Atlantic Wave. Paddy Reynolds (fiddle), Charlie Mulvihill (accordion), James Keane (accordion).View album details
~19745#3[KCB 3] [The Kilfenora Ceili Band]. [The Kilfenora Céilí Band]. View album details
1993[2] various. Alan's other personal audiocassettes.
~20023#3[KCB 6] The Kilfenora Céilí Band. Live in Lisdoonvarna. Anne Rynne (fiddle), Conor McCarthy (accordion), Garry Shannon (flute), Tim Collins (concertina), Sheila Garry (fiddle), Fintan McMahon (piano), Anne Marie McCormack (fiddle), John Lynch (banjo), Sean Griffin (drums), Anthony Quigney (flute).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.

On page 92 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #9 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #203 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #66 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
As reel #46 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 48 of [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition.
As tune #4 in [DM 3] Dave Mallinson. 100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 78 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #234 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As reel #146 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): 1952
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