Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#682 (Frost Is All Over)
about these two barsThese two bars are quoted from the transcription in the book 1001 (details in the Bibliography below).
| Rhythm ? | Bars | Mode ? |
|---|---|---|
| Double jig | 32 | D Major |
Frost Is All Over, The / The Frost Is All Gone / D'Imthig an Sioc / Taan Sioc Imtigte / The Mist of Clonmel / On a Monday Morning / Praties Are Dug / The Praties Are Dug, and the Frost is all Over / The Potatoes Are Dug and the Frost Is All Over / What Would I Do if the Kettle Boiled Over? / What Would I Do If the Kettle Boiled Over / What Would You Do if You Married a Soldier? / The Dancing of the Rabbits in Honan's Garden / The American Dwarf / Hey to the Camp / Lisdoonvarna / Loughrea Jig (2nd in set Around the Old Turf Fire on FBros; only the 1st part of tune appears, once, on Plx 4) (also in G, also with a 3rd part, also as song, compare #2775, and compare this text used for #681)
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.
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to hear the first 12 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title. Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 13#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). For this tune: (harmonica), (mouth harp). |
| ~1979 | 5#3 (2:09) | [Plx 4] Planxty. Collection. Unidentified on this reissue. |
| ~1983 | 6#1 | [CCssdy] Con Cassidy. Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal. Con Cassidy (fiddle). |
| ~2001 | 9#2 | [FG 6] Frankie Gavin. Fierce Traditional. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, flute). |
| ~2002 | 1#3 | [PS 8] Patrick Street. Street Life. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Jackie Daly (accordion), Ged Foley (guitar, vocals), Andy Irvine (bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica, vocals). |
| ~2008 | 2#2 | [Fdl 1] Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, Aidan O'Donnell. Fidil. Ciarán Ó Maonaigh (fiddle), Aidan O'Donnell (fiddle). |
Bibliography
Here are all transcriptions of this tune 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. |
| As tune #107 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. |
| As tune #2 in [A] Hugh McDermott. Allan's "Irish Fiddler." |
| 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. |
| On page 102 of [IFMCK] Drew Beisswenger. Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry. |
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