Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 343 (Humours of Toomagh)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBC Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Humours of Toomagh
 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 MBP (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):
Humours of Toomagh, The / The Humors of Toomagh / The Humours of Thuama / The Humours of Tooma / The Humours of Toonagh / The Cloon / The Cloone / The Cloon Reel / Falling off a Cliff (also in D)
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
197710#2[MBP] Matt Molloy, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples. Matt Molloy. Paul Brady. Tommy Peoples. Matt Molloy (flute), Paul Brady (guitar, vocals), Tommy Peoples (fiddle).View album details
~199610#3[SN 1] Sliabh Notes. Sliabh Notes. Dónal Murphy (accordion), Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tommy O'Sullivan (guitar, vocals).View album details
~19984#3[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
~200315#2[JCt 4] John Carty. At It Again. John Carty (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 #31 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #170 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. [available]
As tune #13 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As reel #481 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. [available]
As tune #39 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): 1974
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