Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 443 (Galway Belles)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Polka32AABBE Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Galway Belles
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of how I (Alan Ng) play this tune.

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Galway Belles / The Galway Belle / Cuz's Polka [Terence "Cuz" Teahan's] / Sixty-Ninth Street Polka
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

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

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~200812#2[TDeM] Tony DeMarco. The Sligo Indians. Tony DeMarco (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 recording listed above.

On page 130 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As other #10 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
On page 227 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As polka #10 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #283 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): 1978
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