Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#550 (Drunken Sailor)
| Rhythm ? | Bars | 8-bar phrase structure | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornpipe | 80 | AABBCCDDEE | G Dorian |
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 TPtts (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Drunken Sailor, The (2nd in set The Drunken Sailor on TPtts) (also with a 6th part)
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). |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 8(1:08)#2 | [TPtts] Tommy Potts. The Liffey Banks. Tommy Potts (fiddle). |
| ~1988 | 13#1 | [NH 1] Noel Hill. The Irish Concertina. Noel Hill (concertina). |
| ~1996 | 4#1 | [LN 1] Laurence Nugent. Traditional Irish Music on Flute and Tin-Whistle. Laurence Nugent (flute, whistle). |
| ~2000 | 6#1 | [LC 3] Liz Carroll. Lost in the Loop. Liz Carroll (fiddle). |
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 #54 in [LPF] Eithne and Brian Vallely. Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club. |
| As hp #63 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. |
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