Martin Mulhaire's #9 - irishtune.info

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Reel	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).
~1986	7#1	[SWlsh 4] Séamus Walshe. Traditional Music of Ireland on Button Accordion. Séamus Walshe (accordion).
1988	8#2	[GFA] The Green Fields of America. Live in Concert. Mick Moloney (banjo, mandolin, guitar, tres, vocals), Robbie O'Connell (guitar, vocals), Jimmy Keane (piano accordion, synthesizers, vocals), Eileen Ivers (fiddle), Seamus Egan (pipes, flute, whistle, bodhrán, tres).
~1989	15#1	[GdMxr] Noel O Grady, Henry Benagh, John Carty, Marcus Hernon. The Good Mixer.
1990	1#1	[MNln 1] Martin Nolan. Travel 'n Style. Martin Nolan (pipes, whistle).
1991	3#2	[FS] Fiddle Sticks. Irish Traditional Music from Donegal. Tommy Peoples, Séamus Gibson..
~1993	3#1	[WU] Martin Mulhaire, Séamus Connolly, Jack Coen. Warming Up. Martin Mulhaire (accordion), Séamus Connolly (fiddle), Jack Coen (flute). For this tune: Martin (accordion).
~1996	5#1	[ST ES] Seamus Tansey. Easter Snow. Seamus Tansey (flute).
~1997	8#3	[KCB 5] The Kilfenora Céili Band. Set on Stone. Aidan McMahon (fiddle), Anne Marie McCormack (fiddle), Anne Rynne (fiddle), Garry Shannon (flute), Anthony Quigney (flute), Conor McCarthy (accordion), John Lynch (banjo), Tim Collins (concertina), Fintan McMahon (piano), Sean Griffin (drums), Paul O'Driscoll (double bass).
~1997	1.7#1	[WFO 1] Wooden Flute Obsession. Seamus Tansey (flute).
~2008	4#1	[RossBr] Ben Lennon and Tony O'Connell. Rossinver Braes. Ben Lennon (fiddle), Tony O'Connell (concertina).
~2009	10#1	[PoNY] Joanie Madden, Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey, Brendan Dolan. Pride of New York. Joanie Madden (flute, whistle), Brian Conway (fiddle), Billy McComiskey (accordion), Brendan Dolan (piano). For this tune: Billy McComiskey (accordion).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Anna Maculeen	GFA
Farrell O'Gara	FS
Doonagore	KCB 5

Played before	On Albums
Street Player	ST ES, WFO 1
Grandpa Tommy's Ceílí Band	WU, PoNY
Imelda Roland's	SWlsh 4
Old Woman of the House	GFA
Lasses of Ballintra	GdMxr
John Stenson's No. 2	MNln 1
Banks of the Ilen	RossBr

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 #7 in volume 4 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 11 of [TP] Tommy Peoples. Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes. [available]
As tune #132 in [CRE 5] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 5.
On page 76 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #230 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #219 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. [available]
As reel #32 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): 1974

Tune ID#1363 (Martin Mulhaire's #9)

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Discography

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Bibliography