Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 665 (Richard Dwyer's)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Richard Dwyer's
 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 COG (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):
Richard Dwyer's / Richie Dwyer's / Richard Dwyer / The Fox on the Town / Finbar Dwyer's (2nd in set The Youngest Daughter on TC; 1st in set Windwood on WFO 1) (also in E or F) (composed by Richard Dwyer aka Richie Dwyer, or according to one source, by Finbar Dwyer)
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
~197812#2[LCTM] Liz Carroll & Tommy Maguire. Kiss Me Kate. Liz Carroll (fiddle), Tommy Maguire (accordion).View album details
198311#3[FG 2] Frankie Gavin. Croch Suas É. Up and Away. Frankie Gavin (flute, fiddle, whistle, accordion).View album details
19908#1[COG] Conal O Gráda. The Top of Coom. Conal Ó Gráda (flute).View album details
~199611#2[TC] various. Turas Cheoil. A Musical Odyssey: A compilation of music from the traditional musicians of Toronto. View album details
~20001.1#1[WFO 1] various. Wooden Flute Obsession. 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 #24 in [P] Brian and Eithne Vallely. Play 50 Reels.
As reel #301 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. [available]
As reel #364 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As reel #148 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]
As tune #8 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): 1978
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