Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 87 (As I Went up to Dublin City)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Polka32AABBA Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of As I Went up to Dublin City
 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 DLB (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):
As I Went up to Dublin City / The Spanish Lady (for 2nd figure of dance Off to Skelligs in book R; for dance Walls of Limerick in book MM) (also in G, D, or C; also as single reel, singled)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this tune considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
20024#1[DLB] Donncha Lynch Band. Timmy 'the Brit' McCarthy's Set Dances of Cork and Kerry. Donncha Lynch (accordion), Aogan Lynch (concertina), Ronan Lynch (fiddle), Donncha Lynch, Jr. (guitar).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 recording listed above.

As tune #296#2 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
On page 135 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As misc #35 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #55 in [IBPS] Pat Conway. Ireland's Best Polkas and Slides. [available]
On page 238 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As polka #47 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): 1927
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