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Tune ID#1669 (Return to Camden Town)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Return to Camden 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 FTIM (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel24AABA Minor
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Return to Camden Town / The Return to Camden Town / Return to Camdentown / Return from Camden Town / The Mountain Meadow / Mountain Meadow (appears in arrangement of song Seventeen Come Sunday on Skylrk 4; originally mislabeled on ECrn 1 as Paddy Fahy's Jig) (also in B Minor, also 2nd part doubled, also both parts singled)
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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).
~19732.10#1
[FTIM] Festival of Traditional Irish [Music]. Discs 7 and 8 of Celtic Souls. Irish Celtic Ballads & Traditional Music. Joe Burke (accordion).
~19734#1
[4IC] Joe Burke, Finbarr Dwyer, Kevin Loughlin, John Whelan. Pure Irish Traditional Accordion. Session with Four Irish Champions. Joe Burke (accordion), Finbarr Dwyer (accordion), Kevin Loughlin (accordion), John Whelan (accordion). For this tune: Joe Burke (accordion).
~19881#1
[PO 1] Paddy O'Brien with Daíthi Sproule. Stranger at the Gate. Paddy O'Brien (accordion).
~19956#2
[JsMrsh 2] Josephine Marsh. Josephine Marsh. Josephine Marsh (accordion, concertina). For this tune: (accordion).
~19968#2
[Skylrk 4] Skylark. Raining Bicycles. Máirtín O'Connor (accordion), Gerry O'Connor (fiddle, viola), Len Graham (vocals), Garry Ó Briain (guitar, mandocello, keyboards, vocals).
19971#1
[JKn 4] James Keane. With Friends Like These. James Keane (accordion).
~200812#1
[MvDnly 2] Maeve Donnelly. Flame on the Banks. Maeve Donnelly (fiddle).
201210#2
[Yanks 1] The Yanks. The Yanks. Isaac Alderson (flute, pipes), Dylan Foley (fiddle), Dan Gurney (accordion), Sean Earnest (guitar, bouzouki).
~20149#2
[ECrn 1] Éilís Crean. The Lonesome Fiddler. Celebrating the Music of Eddie Kelly and the East Galway Irish Music Tradition. Éilís Crean (fiddle).
~202111#2
[BrtDrkly] Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen. Brightly or Darkly. Nathan Gourley (fiddle, guitar, bouzouki), Laura Feddersen (fiddle). For this tune: Laura (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
John Naughton's		JsMrsh 2
Seventeen Come Sunday		Skylrk 4
Jackie Daly's		Yanks 1
Larry Redican's Reel		ECrn 1
Haymaker		BrtDrkly
Played beforeOn Albums
Tom Moyland's Frolic		FTIM, 4IC
Highlander Who Kissed his Granny		PO 1
Miss Thornton's		JKn 4
Girl that Broke My Heart		MvDnly 2
Mullingar Lea		Yanks 1
My Mary Anne		BrtDrkly

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 #41 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As reel #224 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 31 of [T] Fintan Vallely. Timber. The Flute Tutor. 2nd Edition. [available]
As tune #23 in [DM 3] Dave Mallinson. 100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As reel #216 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [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): 1973
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