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#1900 (The Three Sea Captains)

Transcription of first 2 bars of The Three Sea Captains about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording EOD (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Mode ?
Set danceG Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
The Three Sea Captains / Three Sea Captains / The Three Captains / The Sea Captains / William Clark's Favorite (compare Elliss's Jig#2905)
To get to your personal tune notes, Log in or Create an account
Note shared with my friends:

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

Suggest this Tune

To:
Comment to friend:
Map of where members are who play this tune.
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).
19322#1
[ITWWW] "If There Weren't Any Women in the World". Comerford Trio: Mrs. Sheridan (fiddle), possibly McCrystal and Davenport (piccolo or piano).
~194920#1
[TaisLFid] Taisce Luachmhar (Valuable Treasure) - The Fiddle Album. Seán McLaughlin (fiddle).
19654#1
[TKrny] Tommy Kearney. The Master Pipers. Volume 2. Tommy Kearney (pipes). For this tune: with Jimmy Power (fiddle).
19671.4#1
[SRyan C] Seán Ryan. A Collection of His Own Compositions and His Versions of Well Known Traditional Tunes. Seán Ryan (fiddle).
197811#1
[EOD] Eugene O'Donnell. Slow Airs and Set Dances. Eugene O'Donnell (fiddle).
19915#1
[THayes] Tommy Hayes. An Rás. Tommy Hayes (bodhrán, percussion). For this tune: Micheal Ó Súilleabháin (piano).
~200612#2
[JKgn 6] Josephine Keegan. The Fairy Bridges. Josephine Keegan (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Spider's Web		JKgn 6

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 #1787 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #961 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #189 in volume 3 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #115 in [A] Hugh McDermott. Allan's "Irish Fiddler." [available]
On page 220 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
In [FMH] Tom Hastings. The Feis Musicians Handbook [sic].
As setd #30 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #82 in [DM 4] Dave Mallinson. 100 Vital Irish Session Tunes. [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
Please cite your source when you use information from this document.
© 2000–2025 Alan Ng. Questions? Comments? Please use the easy Feedback Form. Thank you!
Start at