Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 744 (Golden Eagle)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Hornpipe32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Golden Eagle
 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 ECst (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):
Golden Eagle, The (1st in set Humours of Galway on FG 3) (also in A or F)
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
~195829#2[TDMI] various. Traditional Dance Music of Ireland. View album details
~197716#3[ECst] various. Traditional Irish Music in America. The East Coast. View album details
~198813#1[PO] Paddy O'Brien with Daíthi Sproule. Stranger at the Gate. Paddy O'Brien (accordion).View album details
~19893#1[FG 3] Frankie Gavin. Frankie Goes to Town. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, flute).View album details
~19909#1[SK 2] Seán Keane. Jig It in Style. Seán Keane (fiddle).View album details
199410#2[JDr 1] Joe Derrane with Felix Dolan. Give Us Another. Joe Derrane (accordion), Felix Dolan (piano).View album details
~199610#1[JB 3] Joe Burke, Charlie Lennon. The Bucks of Oranmore. Joe Burke (accordion), Charlie Lennon (piano).View album details
~19985#2[KH] Kieran Hanrahan. Kieran Hanrahan Plays the Irish Tenor Banjo. Kieran Hanrahan (banjo).View album details
20018#1[FDys] Davy Spillane and Kevin Glackin. Forgotten Days. Davy Spillane (pipes, whistle), Kevin Glackin (fiddle).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 hp #3 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #76 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 205 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As hp #27 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #285 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. [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): 1958