Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#488 (Denis Murphy's)
about these two barsThese two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording Ch 3 (details in the Discography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide | 32 | AABB | D Major |
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Denis Murphy's / Denis Murphy's Slide / Dennis Murphy's Slide / Denis Murphy's Slide No. 1 / Padraic O'Keefe's Slide / Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide / Julia Clifford's Slide / Dark Girl in Blue / The Dark Girl in Blue / The Girl in the Dress / The Gleanntan Slide / The Gleannán / Chris Kieran's Jig / Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also as strathspey on JOS 2)
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.
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to hear the first 10 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 12#1 | [DC1] The Drones and the Chanters. Irish Pipering. Paddy Moloney. |
| ~1973 | 12#3 | [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). |
| ~1978 | 4#2 | [SE 5] Seamus Ennis. The Fox Chase. Seamus Ennis (pipes). |
| 1995 | 20#3 | [JOL 3] Johnny O'Leary. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. Johnny O'Leary (accordion). |
| ~1998 | 3#1 | [JOS 2] Jerry O'Sullivan. The Gift. Jerry O'Sullivan (pipes, whistle, Scottish smallpipes, Irish warpipes). For this tune: (pipes). |
| 2000 | 18#1 | [ACB 1] The Abbey Céilí Band. Bruach an tSuláin. Ger Murphy (accordion), Andrew O'Connell (fiddle), Liam Forde (banjo), Micheál Creedon (bass, keyboards). |
Bibliography
Here are all transcriptions of this tune 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 #62 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols. |
| As tune #15 in volume 2 of [LPTW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle. |
| As tune #133 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. |
| On page 215 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. |
| On page 63 of [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. |
| As tune #63 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. |
| In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic]. |
| On page 74 of [CITM] Fintan Vallely. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. |
| As slide #8 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. |
| As sgjig #8 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. |
| As tune #289 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. |
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): 1971