Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 4883 (Happy To Meet, Sorry to Part)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Double jig32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Happy To Meet, Sorry to Part
 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 PotW (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):
Happy To Meet, Sorry to Part / Happy to Meet / Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part / Sorry to Part / Is Sultmhar an Casadh, Is Uaigneach an Scaradh / Ríméad ar Chastáil / Jemmie the Gom / The Wake Jig / My Love in the Morning / Barrel Rafferty's Jig (compare Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part #802, especially their 1st parts, and compare 1st part with 1st part of Thrush in the Straw #2633)
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
20075#2[PotW] John Wynne and John McEvoy. Pride of the West. John Wynne (flute), John McEvoy (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.

As tune #28 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #218 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): 1969