Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 419 (McGlinchey's Hornpipe)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Hornpipe48AABBCCG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of McGlinchey's Hornpipe
 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 BHIW (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):
McGlinchey's Hornpipe / Brendan McGlinchey's Hornpipe / Brendan McGlinchey's / McGlinchey's / Cross the Fence / Across the Fence / Over the Broken Bridge / Reilly's (composed by Brendan McGlinchey aka Brendan McGlinchy)
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
~197910#2[BHIW] Dolores Keane & John Faulkner. Broken Hearted I'll Wander. Dolores Keane (vocals, concertina, flute ,whistle, hurdy gurdy, bodhrán), John Faulkner (vocals, guitar, hurdy gurdy, bouzouki).View album details
~19965#1[SBw] Folan and Davey. Skin and Bow. Declan Folan (fiddle), Junior Davey (bodhrán).View album details
~199812#1[KH] Kieran Hanrahan. Kieran Hanrahan Plays the Irish Tenor Banjo. Kieran Hanrahan (banjo).View album details
~200213#1[MaRaf] Mary Rafferty. Hand-Me-Downs. Mary Rafferty (accordion, concertina, flute, whistle).View album details
~20032.21#1[WFO 2] various. Wooden Flute Obsession 2. 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 #71 in volume 4 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As hp #45 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #91 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As hp #59 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): 1974
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