Leg of the Duck - irishtune.info

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Double jig	32	AABB	D Major

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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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1985	15#1	[Blasket] Beauty an Oileáin. Music and Song of the Blasket Islands. Muiris Ó Dálaigh (C melodeon).
~1991	B.7#2	[MotS 1] Monks of the Screw. Bráithre an Óil. Timmy O Connor (accordion), Paudy Scully (flute), John Drew (mandocello), Tim Browne (bouzouki).
~1995	12#1	[CDrny 3] Chris Droney. The Fertile Rock. Chris Droney (concertina).
~1997	14#1	[TMcCrthy] Tommy McCarthy. Sporting Nell. Tommy McCarthy (concertina, pipes, whistle). For this tune: (whistle).
~1999	12#1	[GOC 2] Gerry O'Connor. Myriad. Gerry O'Connor (banjo, fiddle, guitar). For this tune: (banjo), with Liam O'Connor (fiddle), Michael O'Connor (accordion).
2001	21#1	[PHCB] Public House Ceili Band. Go Figure. Dan Cobb (banjo), Dave Delgado (whistle), Alan Ng (fiddle), Bob Newton (octave mandolin).
2011	8#3	[MDORlgh] MacDara Ó Raghallaigh. Ego Trip. MacDara Ó Raghallaigh (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Mylons Rock [Mylon's Rock]	MotS 1
Cailleach an Airgid	MDORlgh

Played before	On Albums
Muiris Ó Dálaigh	Blasket
An Seanduine Dóite	CDrny 3
High Part of the Road	TMcCrthy
Black Rogue	GOC 2
O'Keeffe's	PHCB

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 #984 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #200 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
On page 42 of [RW] Robin Williamson. The Penny Whistle Book. [available]
As other #3 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
As slide #15 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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903

Tune ID#1114 (Leg of the Duck)

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Bibliography