Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 482 (Delahunty's Hornpipe)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Hornpipe32AABBD Mixolydian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Delahunty'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 Ch 3 (transposed to D) (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):
Delahunty's Hornpipe / Delahunty's / Delahanty's Hornpipe / Delahaunty's / The Wicklow Hornpipe / The Wicklow / The Homebrew Hornpipe / The Home Brew / The Kerry Hornpipe / Road to Boyle / The Road to Boyle / John Quinn's / The Iron Gate / Sonny Murray's (compare parts of several of the compositions by Paddy Moloney on Ch BIH)
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
~19733#2[Ch 3] The Chieftains. 3. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones).View album details
~19954#1[JW 1] John Williams. John Williams. John Williams (accordion, concertina).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 #1579 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #828 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #67 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 169 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As tune #226 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
As hp #37 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #78 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic].
On page 215 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As hp #16 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As hp #48 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]
As tune #263 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [available]
On page 116 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [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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