Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 664 (Fox Chase)

Type
Piece
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Fox Chase, The / The Fox Hunt / The Irish Fox Hunt / Fiach an Mhadra Rua / An Madradhín Ruadh / An Madradhín Ruad / An Madradin Ruadh (contains The Foxhunter's Jig #668) (compare Paddy Moloney's medley The Foxhunt included here and the English tune The Little Red Fox)
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
~19519#1[AL] various. World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland. View album details
~195912#1[LR 2] Leo Rowsome. The King of the Pipers. Leo Rowsome (pipes).View album details
19696#1[Ch 2] The Chieftains. 2. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones), Seán Keane (fiddle).View album details
~19776#1[SE 4] Séamus Ennis. Forty Years of Irish Piping. Seamus Ennis (pipes except where whistle or vocals noted).View album details
~197810#1[SE 5] Seamus Ennis. The Fox Chase. Seamus Ennis (pipes).View album details
~199824#1[BG 5] Bobby Gardiner. The Clare Shout. Bobby Gardiner (accordion, lilting).View album details
~20007#1[EOR] Eoin Ó Riabhaigh. Tiomnacht. Handed On. Eoin Ó Riabhaigh (pipes).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.

On page 128 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. [available]
On pages 128-129 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. [available]
As tune #1850 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
On pages 129-130 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. [available]
On page 130 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. [available]
As 2 (pp. 64-66) in [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [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): 1806
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