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Tune ID#103 (Ballintore Fancy)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Ballintore Fancy about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording LR 2 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Single jig32AABBG Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Ballintore Fancy, The / Port Sheáin Pléamonn / John Fleming's Jig / Kiss in the Furze / The Kerry Jig (2nd in set The Ballintore Jig on PK 2; 2nd in set Nightingale on McP BHB) (also reversed parts; also as reel, singled; 3rd in set The Ballintore Fancy on BB 2, mislabeled as Farewell to Erin on some reissues)
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Discography cd

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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Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune?
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~19592#2
[LR 2] Leo Rowsome. The King of the Pipers. Leo Rowsome (pipes).
19764#3
[BB 2] The Bothy Band. Old Hag You Have Killed Me. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Burke (fiddle), Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (vocals, clavinet, harmonium), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (vocals, guitar), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán).
~19836#2
[PK 2] Paddy Keenan. Poirt an Phíobaire. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (pipes).
19911.1#2
[McP BHB] The McPeake Family and Paul Burns. Back Home in Belfast.
~20014#2
[JoeMcK] Joe McKenna. The Irish Low Whistle. Joe McKenna (whistle, pipes, keyboards, piano). For this tune: (low F whistle).
~200112#2
[PK 4] Paddy Keenan, Tommy O'Sullivan. The Long Grazing Acre. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Tommy O'Sullivan (guitar, vocals). For this tune: (pipes).
~20119#3
[DOMhny 1] Danny O' Mahony. In Retrospect. Danny O' Mahony (accordion). For this tune: (B/C accordion).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Kerry Jig
LR 2, BB 2, JoeMcK
Kitty O'Neill's Champion Jig
PK 2, PK 4
Nightingale
McP BHB
Red Tom of the Hills
DOMhny 1
Played beforeOn Albums
Miss Johnson
McP BHB

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 musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #79 in [WC] Pat Mitchell. The Dance Music of Willie Clancy. [available]
As tune #66 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. [available]
As jig #8 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic].
As sgjig #14 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan.

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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1959