Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 682 (Frost Is All Over)

RhythmBarsMode
Double jig32D Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Frost Is All Over
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of the transcription in the book 1001 (details in the Bibliography 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):
Frost Is All Over, The / The Frost Is All Gone / The Mist of Clonmel / On a Monday Morning / Praties Are Dug / The Potatoes Are Dug and the Frost Is All Over / What Would I Do if the Kettle Boiled Over? / The Dancing of the Rabbits in Honan's Garden (2nd in set Around the Old Turf Fire on FBros; on Plx 4 only 1st part is played) (also in G, also as song, compare #2775, and compare this text used for #681)
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
192813#2[FBros] The Flanagan Brothers. The Tunes We Like to Play on Paddy's Day. Joe Flanagan (accordion), Louis Flanagan (guitar, banjo), Mike Flanagan (banjo, vocals, mandolin).View album details
~19795(2:09)#2[Plx 4] Planxty. Collection. Unidentified on this reissue.View album details
~20019#2[FG 6] Frankie Gavin. Fierce Traditional. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, flute).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 #313 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #107 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #2 in [A] Hugh McDermott. Allan's "Irish Fiddler." [available]
On page 14 of [MR] Barbara Wygol (tunes), Jenny Loui (text). The Piper's Chair. A Collection of Tunes and Folklore from Micho Russell.
In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic].
On page 135 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As jig #36 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [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): 1907
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