O'Carolan's Concerto - irishtune.info

Basic musical information on this tune.
Type ?	Mode ?
Piece	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).
1957	1.7#1	[SltSdt] Seoltaí Séidte. Setting Sail. Tommy Reck (pipes).
~1959	16#1	[LR 2] Leo Rowsome. The King of the Pipers. Leo Rowsome (pipes).
~1973	6#1	[Ch 3] The Chieftains. 3. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones).
1986	2#3	[Ch JG] James Galway and the Chieftains. In Ireland. James Galway (flute, whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Martin Fay (fiddle, bones), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, harpsichord).
~1987	8#1	[JJCasey] John Joe Casey. The Tiermaclane Fancy. John Joe Casey (concertina).
~1991	12#1	[CrlnAlbs] Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman. The Carolan Albums. Máire Ní Chathasaigh (harp), Chris Newman (guitar).
1992	11#1	[Ch CH] The Chieftains. The Celtic Harp. A Tribute to Edward Bunting with the Belfast Harp Orchestra. Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals), Matt Molloy (flute), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, harpsichord).
~1998	7#1	[THwtB] Seamus Tansey and Jim McKillop. To Hell with the Begrudgers. Seamus Tansey (flute), Jim McKillop (fiddle).
2001	1#1	[CFF 3] Celtic Fiddle Festival. Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham, Christian Lemaître. Rendezvous. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Johnny Cunningham (fiddle), Christian Lemaître (fiddle).
2004	11#1	[CFF 4] Celtic Fiddle Festival. Play on. . .. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Christian Lemaître (fiddle), André Brunet (fiddle), Ged Foley (guitar, fiddle). For this tune: Kevin Burke (fiddle).
~2005	10#1	[JCt 5] John Carty. I Will If I Can. John Carty (banjo, guitar, fiddle). For this tune: (guitar).
2012	15#1	[THny 2] Therese Honey. Summer's End. Therese Honey (harp).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Mabel Kelly	Ch JG

Played before	On Albums
Planxty Davis	LR 2
Loftus Jones	CFF 4
O'Carolan's Draught	JCt 5

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 #633 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
On pages 138-139 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
On page 229 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 62 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As tune #154 in [Crln] The Complete Works of O'Carolan. [available]
On page 14 of [Crln] The Complete Works of O'Carolan. [available]
As tune #94 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As ocar #1 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#1437 (O'Carolan's Concerto)

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Bibliography