Paul de Grae's Index of Irish Tune Books

From the introduction:

"This is an index of Irish traditional melodies in the various books in my collection. The compilation began several years ago, and is updated from time to time. The index is for my own use. It is not a scholarly work, it is not complete, and it is not definitive. However, it may be of some use to others."

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The currently indexed books are:

Abbreviation	Explanation
AB	50 Fiddle Solos. Aly Bain. Conway Editions, London, 1989.
AIF	Allan's Irish Fiddler. Mozart Allan, Glasgow, no date [1920s?].
AM	The Minstrelsy of Ireland. 200 Irish Songs …
	Alfred Moffat. London, 1897.
AS 1-6	A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs adapted to the Fife,
	Violin, or German-Flute.
	James Aird, Glasgow, 1778/82/94/95/1801.[1]
BB	Music's the Very Best Thing. The Bill Black Music Collection Vol. 1.
	Bill Black, Falmouth (MA), 1996 [indexing yet to be completed].
B&S1-4	Music from Ireland (four vols.).
	Dave Bulmer, Neil Sharpley, Lincolnshire, no date [1970s].
BSC	Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes. Paul S. Cranford, ed.
	Cranford Publications, Cape Breton Island, Canada, 1994.
BSIF	Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing. Vol.1. David Lyth.
	Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, 1981.
BT	The Music of Brendan Tonra. Helen R. Kisiel, Boston, 1988.
C	Carolan. The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper.
	Donal O'Sullivan (two vols.). Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1958.
CC	The Caledonian Companion. Alastair J. Hardie. EMI, London, 1981.
CL	Musical Memories. Charlie Lennon.
	Worldmusic Publications, Dublin, 1993.
CR	Crosby's Irish Musical Repository: A Choice Selection of Esteemed
	Irish Songs. B. Crosby. London, 1808.
CRÉ1-5	Ceol Rince na hÉireann (five vols.). Breandán Breathnach, Jackie Small.
	An Gúm, Dublin, 1963-1999.
CS 1	Cooke's Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances
	for the Year 1796. B. Cooke, Dublin.
CS 2	Cooke's Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances
	for the Year 1797. B. Cooke, Dublin.
DMC	The Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
	Arthur W. Darley, P. J. McCall. Dublin, 1914 (Ossian reprint, 1984).
DMI	Dance Music of Ireland (1001 Gems). Francis O'Neill. Chicago, 1907.
DMWC	The Dance Music of Willie Clancy. Pat Mitchell.
	Ossian Publications, Cork, 1983.
EB 1	A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music.
	Edward Bunting. Dublin, 1796.
EB 2	A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland.
	Edward Bunting. London, 1809.
EB 3	A Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland.
	Edward Bunting. Dublin, 1840.
	[EB1-3 reprinted by Walton's, 1969, as The Ancient Music of Ireland.]
EH	Howe's 1,000 Jigs and Reels, etc. Elias Howe. Boston, n.d. [c.1880-82].
	Re-issue edited by Patrick Sky. Mel Bay Publications, 2001.
ER	Where the Shannon Rises. The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy.
	Joseph M. Reavy. 1984.
FMDI	Folk Music and Dance of Ireland. Breandán Breathnach.
	The Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork, 1971.
FMN	Forget Me Not. A Collection of 50 Memorable Traditional Irish Tunes.
	Séamus Connolly and Laurel Martin. Mel Bay, 2002.
FTB	The Fiddler's Tune-Book. Peter Kennedy.
	Hargail Music Press, Saugerties, NY, no date (1951?).
G	Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music. P.J. Giblin. America, 1928.
GC	Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor. Geraldine Cotter.
	Ossian Publications, Cork, 1989.
HAC	Harding's All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances.
	Ed Harding. Harding's Music House, New York, 1905.
HAV	Three hundred Irish airs: arranged for the piano forte. 3 vols in one.
	P. M. Haverty. New York, 1858-1859.
HF	Hidden Fermanagh. Cyril Maguire.
	Fermanagh Traditional Music Society, 2003.
HM	The Hibernian Muse. S., A. & P. Thompson. London, 1787.
HS	Hannam's Selection of Celebrated Irish Melodies. No. 3.
	H. Hannam. London, 1810.
IFB	The Irish Fiddle Book. Matt Cranitch.
	The Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork, 1988.
ISTR	Irish Session Tunes: The Red Book. Matt Cranitch.
	Ossian Publications, Cork, 2000.
J1	Ancient Irish Music. P.W. Joyce. 1873.
	Re-issued by Longman's, Dublin, 1912.
J2	Irish Music and Song. P.W. Joyce. 1888.
	"New Edition", M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1901.
J3	Irish Peasant Songs in the English Language. P.W. Joyce.
	Second edition, M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1906.
J4	Old Irish Folk Music and Songs. P.W. Joyce. Dublin, 1909.
	Reprinted by Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., New York, 1965.
JCIT	Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes. Edmund Lee, Dublin, 1774.
JOB1	Jerry O'Brien's Accordion Instructor. Jerry O'Brien.
	E. O'Byrne DeWitt's Sons, Roxbury, 1949.
JOB2	Irish Folk Dance Music. Jerry O'Brien.
	E. O'Byrne DeWitt's Sons, Roxbury, 1952.
JOL	Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Terry Moylan.
	Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1994.
K4	Kerr's Fourth Collection of Merry Melodies [etc.].
	James Kerr, Glasgow, n.d.[2]
	[operatic airs and ballroom dance melodies omitted from this index]
KVR 1-3	Köhler's Violin Repository (three vols.).
	Ed. by "A Professional Player" [W. B. Laybourn].
	Ernest Köhler & Son, Edinburgh, 1881-5.
	[operatic airs and ballroom dance melodies omitted from this index]
L 1	The Dance Music of Ireland. First Collection. R. M. Levey.
	London, 1858.
L 2	The Dance Music of Ireland. Second Collection. R. M. Levey.
	London, 1873.
	[L 1 and L 2 reprinted in a single volume by Waltons, Dublin, 2003;
	page references in the index are to this edition.]
LOM	Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music: Vol. 1. Luke O'Malley.
	New Jersey, 1976.
LPF	Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club.
	Brian and Eithne Vallely. Armagh, no date [1970s].
MD	Farewell to the Gort. Sixty Original Tunes Composed by Micheal Dwyer.
	Copy of unpublished and undated manuscript.
MI	Music of Ireland. Francis O'Neill. Chicago, 1903.
MM	Martin Mulvihill: First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
	Martin Mulvihill. New York, 1986.
M&P	Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. Randy Miller & Jack Perron.
	Fiddlecase Books, New Hampshire. Second edition, 2006.
MR	300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. Lesl Harker. New Jersey, 2005.
NF	The Northern Fiddler. Allan Feldman, Eamonn O'Doherty.
	Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1979.
OIM	O'Neill's Irish Music. 400 Choice Selections. Francis O'Neill.
	Chicago, 1915. Reprinted by The Mercier Press, Cork, 1987.
OFPC 1-4	O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes [etc.]
	Patrick O'Farrell, London, c.1805-10.
P1	The Ancient Music of Ireland Volume 1. George Petrie. Dublin, 1855.
P2	The Ancient Music of Ireland Volume 2. George Petrie. Dublin, 1882.
	[P1 and P2 reprinted in a single volume, with additonal material, by
	Cork University Press, 2002; editor David Cooper. Page references in
	the index are to this edition.]
PFR	Play 50 Reels. Brian and Eithne Vallely. Armagh Pipers Club, 1982.
PPM	The Poets and Poetry of Munster [etc.].
	John O'Daly and James Clarence Mangan. Dublin, 1850.
	[via Google Books]
PS	An Pota Stóir. The Set Dance Music of West Kerry.
	Feargal Mac Amhlaoibh, Con Durham. Dingle, 1994.
PSI	The Popular Songs of Ireland.
	Thomas Crofton Croker. London, 1839. [via Google Books]
RG	The Road to Glountane. Terence "Cuz" Teahan, Josh Dunson.
	Chicago, 1980.
RMC	Ryan's Mammoth Collection. Pat Sky (ed.). Elias Howe, Boston, 1883.
	Reprinted by Mel Bay Publications, 1995.
RW	English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes. Robin Williamson.
	Oak Publications, 1976.
SB	Street Ballads, Popular Poetry and Household Songs of Ireland.
	Collected and arranged by Duncathail [Ralph Varian].
	McGlashan & Gill, Dublin, 1865 (2nd edition). [via Google Books]
SF 1	The Scots Fiddle. Volume 1: Tunes, Tales and Traditions of the
	North-East & Central Highlands. J. Murray Neil.
	Neil Wilson, Glasgow, 1999.
SF 2	The Scots Fiddle. Volume 2: Tunes, Tales and Traditions of the Lothians,
	Borders & Ayreshire. J. Murray Neil.
	Neil Wilson, Glasgow, 1999.
SFT	Scottish Fiddle Tunes. 1903, reprinted by Ossian, Cork, 1985.
SH 1-2	A Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes. Two vols.
	Smollett Holden. Dublin, 1805-6.
SI	The Songs of Ireland. Without words. For the pianoforte.
	J. T. Surenne, Edinburgh, 1854.
SL	The Lyrics of Ireland.
	Samuel Lover. London, 1858. [via Google Books]
SLP	Sliabh Luachra on Parade. Paul DeLoughery, no date (post-1987).
SP	The Complete Collection of Irish Music. George Petrie; ed. C.V. Stanford.
	London, 1902-5. Reprinted by Llanerch Publishers, 1995. Three vols.
SR1	The Hidden Ireland. The First Collection of Irish Traditional
	Compositions of Seán Ryan. Brian Ryan, no date [1990s?].
SR2	Seán Ryan's Dream. The Second Collection of Irish Traditional
	Compositions of Seán Ryan. Brian Ryan, no date [1990s].
TIG	Traditional Irish Guitar. Paul de Grae. Ossian, Cork, 1996.
TMP	Tunes of the Munster Pipers. Irish Traditional Music from the James
	Goodman Manuscripts. Hugh Shields, ed.
	Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin, 1998.
TP1	Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes. Tommy Peoples. Waltons, Dublin, 1986.
TP2	ABC collection of Tommy Peoples tunes, recorded mid-1970s
	(posted to IRTRAD-L by Bernie Stocks)
TS	Trip to Sligo. Bernard Flaherty. Sligo, 1990.
TW	Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with Armagh Pipers Club (three vols.).
	Eithne and John B. Vallely. Armagh, no date [1970s?].
W&S	Whistle and Sing! Eamonn Jordan. Portadown, 1975.
WSGM	Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody. Francis O'Neill. Chicago, 1922.

Abbreviation

Explanation

50 Fiddle Solos. Aly Bain. Conway Editions, London, 1989.

AIF

Allan's Irish Fiddler. Mozart Allan, Glasgow, no date [1920s?].

The Minstrelsy of Ireland. 200 Irish Songs …

Alfred Moffat. London, 1897.

AS 1-6

A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs adapted to the Fife,

Violin, or German-Flute.

James Aird, Glasgow, 1778/82/94/95/1801.[1]

Music's the Very Best Thing. The Bill Black Music Collection Vol. 1.

Bill Black, Falmouth (MA), 1996 [indexing yet to be completed].

B&S1-4

Music from Ireland (four vols.).

Dave Bulmer, Neil Sharpley, Lincolnshire, no date [1970s].

BSC

Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes. Paul S. Cranford, ed.

Cranford Publications, Cape Breton Island, Canada, 1994.

BSIF

Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing. Vol.1. David Lyth.

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, 1981.

The Music of Brendan Tonra. Helen R. Kisiel, Boston, 1988.

Carolan. The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper.

Donal O'Sullivan (two vols.). Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1958.

The Caledonian Companion. Alastair J. Hardie. EMI, London, 1981.

Musical Memories. Charlie Lennon.

Worldmusic Publications, Dublin, 1993.

Crosby's Irish Musical Repository: A Choice Selection of Esteemed

Irish Songs. B. Crosby. London, 1808.

CRÉ1-5

Ceol Rince na hÉireann (five vols.). Breandán Breathnach, Jackie Small.

An Gúm, Dublin, 1963-1999.

CS 1

Cooke's Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances

for the Year 1796. B. Cooke, Dublin.

CS 2

Cooke's Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances

for the Year 1797. B. Cooke, Dublin.

DMC

The Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

Arthur W. Darley, P. J. McCall. Dublin, 1914 (Ossian reprint, 1984).

DMI

Dance Music of Ireland (1001 Gems). Francis O'Neill. Chicago, 1907.

DMWC

The Dance Music of Willie Clancy. Pat Mitchell.

Ossian Publications, Cork, 1983.

EB 1

A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music.

Edward Bunting. Dublin, 1796.

EB 2

A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland.

Edward Bunting. London, 1809.

EB 3

A Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland.

Edward Bunting. Dublin, 1840.

[EB1-3 reprinted by Walton's, 1969, as The Ancient Music of Ireland.]

Howe's 1,000 Jigs and Reels, etc. Elias Howe. Boston, n.d. [c.1880-82].

Re-issue edited by Patrick Sky. Mel Bay Publications, 2001.

Where the Shannon Rises. The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy.

Joseph M. Reavy. 1984.

FMDI

Folk Music and Dance of Ireland. Breandán Breathnach.

The Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork, 1971.

FMN

Forget Me Not. A Collection of 50 Memorable Traditional Irish Tunes.

Séamus Connolly and Laurel Martin. Mel Bay, 2002.

FTB

The Fiddler's Tune-Book. Peter Kennedy.

Hargail Music Press, Saugerties, NY, no date (1951?).

Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music. P.J. Giblin. America, 1928.

Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor. Geraldine Cotter.

Ossian Publications, Cork, 1989.

HAC

Harding's All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances.

Ed Harding. Harding's Music House, New York, 1905.

HAV

Three hundred Irish airs: arranged for the piano forte. 3 vols in one.

P. M. Haverty. New York, 1858-1859.

Hidden Fermanagh. Cyril Maguire.

Fermanagh Traditional Music Society, 2003.

The Hibernian Muse. S., A. & P. Thompson. London, 1787.

Hannam's Selection of Celebrated Irish Melodies. No. 3.

H. Hannam. London, 1810.

IFB

The Irish Fiddle Book. Matt Cranitch.

The Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork, 1988.

ISTR

Irish Session Tunes: The Red Book. Matt Cranitch.

Ossian Publications, Cork, 2000.

Ancient Irish Music. P.W. Joyce. 1873.

Re-issued by Longman's, Dublin, 1912.

Irish Music and Song. P.W. Joyce. 1888.

"New Edition", M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1901.

Irish Peasant Songs in the English Language. P.W. Joyce.

Second edition, M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1906.

Old Irish Folk Music and Songs. P.W. Joyce. Dublin, 1909.

Reprinted by Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., New York, 1965.

JCIT

Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes. Edmund Lee, Dublin, 1774.

JOB1

Jerry O'Brien's Accordion Instructor. Jerry O'Brien.

E. O'Byrne DeWitt's Sons, Roxbury, 1949.

JOB2

Irish Folk Dance Music. Jerry O'Brien.

E. O'Byrne DeWitt's Sons, Roxbury, 1952.

JOL

Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Terry Moylan.

Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1994.

Kerr's Fourth Collection of Merry Melodies [etc.].

James Kerr, Glasgow, n.d.[2]

[operatic airs and ballroom dance melodies omitted from this index]

KVR 1-3

Köhler's Violin Repository (three vols.).

Ed. by "A Professional Player" [W. B. Laybourn].

Ernest Köhler & Son, Edinburgh, 1881-5.

[operatic airs and ballroom dance melodies omitted from this index]

L 1

The Dance Music of Ireland. First Collection. R. M. Levey.

London, 1858.

L 2

The Dance Music of Ireland. Second Collection. R. M. Levey.

London, 1873.

[L 1 and L 2 reprinted in a single volume by Waltons, Dublin, 2003;

page references in the index are to this edition.]

LOM

Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music: Vol. 1. Luke O'Malley.

New Jersey, 1976.

LPF

Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club.

Brian and Eithne Vallely. Armagh, no date [1970s].

Farewell to the Gort. Sixty Original Tunes Composed by Micheal Dwyer.

Copy of unpublished and undated manuscript.

Music of Ireland. Francis O'Neill. Chicago, 1903.

Martin Mulvihill: First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

Martin Mulvihill. New York, 1986.

M&P

Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. Randy Miller & Jack Perron.

Fiddlecase Books, New Hampshire. Second edition, 2006.

300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. Lesl Harker. New Jersey, 2005.

The Northern Fiddler. Allan Feldman, Eamonn O'Doherty.

Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1979.

OIM

O'Neill's Irish Music. 400 Choice Selections. Francis O'Neill.

Chicago, 1915. Reprinted by The Mercier Press, Cork, 1987.

OFPC 1-4

O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes [etc.]

Patrick O'Farrell, London, c.1805-10.

The Ancient Music of Ireland Volume 1. George Petrie. Dublin, 1855.

The Ancient Music of Ireland Volume 2. George Petrie. Dublin, 1882.

[P1 and P2 reprinted in a single volume, with additonal material, by

Cork University Press, 2002; editor David Cooper. Page references in

the index are to this edition.]

PFR

Play 50 Reels. Brian and Eithne Vallely. Armagh Pipers Club, 1982.

PPM

The Poets and Poetry of Munster [etc.].

John O'Daly and James Clarence Mangan. Dublin, 1850.

[via Google Books]

An Pota Stóir. The Set Dance Music of West Kerry.

Feargal Mac Amhlaoibh, Con Durham. Dingle, 1994.

PSI

The Popular Songs of Ireland.

Thomas Crofton Croker. London, 1839. [via Google Books]

The Road to Glountane. Terence "Cuz" Teahan, Josh Dunson.

Chicago, 1980.

RMC

Ryan's Mammoth Collection. Pat Sky (ed.). Elias Howe, Boston, 1883.

Reprinted by Mel Bay Publications, 1995.

English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes. Robin Williamson.

Oak Publications, 1976.

Street Ballads, Popular Poetry and Household Songs of Ireland.

Collected and arranged by Duncathail [Ralph Varian].

McGlashan & Gill, Dublin, 1865 (2nd edition). [via Google Books]

SF 1

The Scots Fiddle. Volume 1: Tunes, Tales and Traditions of the

North-East & Central Highlands. J. Murray Neil.

Neil Wilson, Glasgow, 1999.

SF 2

The Scots Fiddle. Volume 2: Tunes, Tales and Traditions of the Lothians,

Borders & Ayreshire. J. Murray Neil.

Neil Wilson, Glasgow, 1999.

SFT

Scottish Fiddle Tunes. 1903, reprinted by Ossian, Cork, 1985.

SH 1-2

A Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes. Two vols.

Smollett Holden. Dublin, 1805-6.

The Songs of Ireland. Without words. For the pianoforte.

J. T. Surenne, Edinburgh, 1854.

The Lyrics of Ireland.

Samuel Lover. London, 1858. [via Google Books]

SLP

Sliabh Luachra on Parade. Paul DeLoughery, no date (post-1987).

The Complete Collection of Irish Music. George Petrie; ed. C.V. Stanford.

London, 1902-5. Reprinted by Llanerch Publishers, 1995. Three vols.

SR1

The Hidden Ireland. The First Collection of Irish Traditional

Compositions of Seán Ryan. Brian Ryan, no date [1990s?].

SR2

Seán Ryan's Dream. The Second Collection of Irish Traditional

Compositions of Seán Ryan. Brian Ryan, no date [1990s].

TIG

Traditional Irish Guitar. Paul de Grae. Ossian, Cork, 1996.

TMP

Tunes of the Munster Pipers. Irish Traditional Music from the James

Goodman Manuscripts. Hugh Shields, ed.

Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin, 1998.

TP1

Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes. Tommy Peoples. Waltons, Dublin, 1986.

TP2

ABC collection of Tommy Peoples tunes, recorded mid-1970s

(posted to IRTRAD-L by Bernie Stocks)

Trip to Sligo. Bernard Flaherty. Sligo, 1990.

Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with Armagh Pipers Club (three vols.).

Eithne and John B. Vallely. Armagh, no date [1970s?].

W&S

Whistle and Sing! Eamonn Jordan. Portadown, 1975.

WSGM

Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody. Francis O'Neill. Chicago, 1922.

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