Tune Search
Sign in or join  to see your:     Home   Playlists   Practice Machine   Stats   Friends   Albums   Preferences   Sign out
The Irish Traditional Music Tune Index

Tune ID#1494 (Road to Town)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Road to Town about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording TnRadio (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel16ABD Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Road to Town, The / The Road to the Town / The Scartaglen Reel / The Scartaglin Reel / Ríl Scairteach an Ghlinne / The Scartaglen / Denis Murphy's / Dennis Murphy's Reel / I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow / The Old Kerry Cow / The Brown Girl's Reel / Lománach Cross / P.J. MacNamara's / P.J. Mac Namara's (also in G, also doubled, also only 2nd part doubled)
To get to your personal tune notes, Log in or Create an account
Note shared with my friends:

Note to myself only:
14 members play this tune.
0 of them are your friends.

Suggest this Tune

To:
Comment to friend:
map of tune distribution
Where members are who play this tune.

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.

Click play below to hear the first 12 seconds.
Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune?
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
19498#2
[TnRadio] Tuning the Radio. Denis Murphy (fiddle).
~19491#2
~19907#4
[PS 3] Patrick Street. Irish Times. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Andy Irvine (vocals, harmonica, mandolin, bouzouki), Gerry O'Beirne (vocals, guitar), James Kelly (fiddle), Declan Masterson (pipes, whistle, keyboards), Jackie Daly (accordion), Arty McGlynn (guitar), Bill Whelan (keyboards).
19927#1
[MH 1] Martin Hayes. Martin Hayes. Martin Hayes (fiddle).
20082#1
[WndnRds] Paudie O'Connor and John O'Brien. Wind and Reeds. Paudie O'Connor (accordion, whistle), John O'Brien (pipes, whistle).
~20104#3
[DShrdn 2] Dave Sheridan. Drivin' Leitrim Timber. Dave Sheridan (flute, guitar). For this tune: (Eb flute).
~201111#3
[NFBolg] Jack Talty, Cormac Begley. Na Fir Bolg. Jack Talty (concertina), Cormac Begley (concertina).
~20134#1
[ForGems] Peter Carberry and Pádraig McGovern. Forgotten Gems. Peter Carberry (accordion), Pádraig McGovern (B pipes, D pipes).
~20213#3
[BrtDrkly] Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen. Brightly or Darkly. Nathan Gourley (fiddle, guitar, bouzouki), Laura Feddersen (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Give Us Another
TnRadio, TaisLFid
Ballygow Reel
PS 3
Johnny Gorman's Reel
DShrdn 2
Da Nippin Grund
NFBolg
Paddy Joe Tighe's
BrtDrkly
Played beforeOn Albums
Morning Star
TnRadio, TaisLFid
John Naughton's
MH 1
Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel
WndnRds
Jenny Dang the Weaver
ForGems

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 #263 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. [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): 1949