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Tune ID#144 (Ben Hill)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Ben Hill about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording TaisLFid (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Hornpipe32AABBG Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Ben Hill / New York Hornpipe (mislabeled as 1st in set The Bantry on EMlny) (also in A) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Bantry Hornpipe #3255)
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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).
~19498#1
[TaisLFid] Taisce Luachmhar (Valuable Treasure) - The Fiddle Album. Aggie Whyte (fiddle).
~19511.20#2
[AWhyte] Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte (fiddle). For this tune: with Eddie Moloney (flute).
~19641.9#1
[EMlny] Eddie Moloney. Eddie Moloney. Master Musician. Eddie Moloney (flute, fiddle, whistle, vocal). For this tune: (Eb flute).
~19792.25#2
[AWhyte] Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte (fiddle).
19936#1
[MOK] Máire O'Keeffe. Cóisir. House Party. Máire O'Keeffe (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Dunphy's Hornpipe		AWhyte
Bantry Hornpipe		AWhyte
Played beforeOn Albums
Dunphy's Hornpipe		TaisLFid
Standing Abbey		EMlny
Spellan's Fiddle		MOK

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 hp #67 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. [available]
As hp #26 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): 1949
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