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Tune ID#1909 (Tie the Bonnet)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Tie the Bonnet about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording Ch 2 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel16ABA Dorian
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Tie the Bonnet / Jenny, Tie the Bonnet / Jenny Tie the Bonnet / Jenny, Tie Your Bonnet / Jenny Tie Your Bonnet / Cuir Snaidhm ar do Chaipín, a Shinéad / Lassie Tie Your Bonnet / Lassie Tie Your Bonnets / Lassies Tie Your Bonnet / Lassies Tie Your Bonnets / Lizzie's Bonnet / Jenny Lace your Tight / The Rambler's Rest / Rambler's Rest / Down with the Mail / Upstairs in a Tent / The Highland Man Who Kissed His Grannie / The Gravelled Walks to Granny / The Green Gate / In and Out the Harbour / The Faraway Wedding / The Cottage in the Grove (2nd in set The South Bend Reels on Scglen 3) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Tie the Bonnet #4536)
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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).
~196820#2
[PitS] Paddy in the Smoke. Con Curtin, Edmond Murphy.
19697#2
[Ch 2] The Chieftains. 2. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones), Seán Keane (fiddle). For this tune: 1st time Sean Keane (fiddle).
~197011#2
~19702.15#2
~19709#2
[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: Finbarr Dwyer (accordion).
197318#1
[WC 2] Willie Clancy. The Pipering of Willie Clancy. Volume 1. Willie Clancy (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (pipes).
~19741#1
19761.2#2
[HmrLshn] John and Julia Clifford. The Humours of Lisheen. Music from Sliabh Luachra Vol. 3. John Clifford (piano accordion), Julia Clifford (fiddle).
~19925#1
[Scglen 3] Scartaglen. Last Night's Fun. Irish Music in America. Kirk Lynch (pipes, whistle, etc.), Connie Dover (vocals, keyboards), Roger Landes (bouzouki etc.), Michael Dugger (fiddle etc.). For this tune: Kirk (pipes).
199812#2
[JKn 6] James Keane and Friends. Live in Dublin. James Keane (accordion). For this tune: with Sean Keane (fiddle), Mick O'Connor (flute).
~20025#1
[MaRaf] Mary Rafferty. Hand-Me-Downs. Mary Rafferty (accordion, concertina, flute, whistle). For this tune: (accordion), with Mike (flute).
~20061#4
[Tda 3] Téada. Inné Amárach. Seán McElwain (guitar, bouzouki, banjo), Damien Stenson (flute), Tristan Rosenstock (bodhrán), Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle, piano), Paul Finn (accordion).
~20093#3
[SMcK] Skip McKinley. Fairy Tales. Skip McKinley (flute).
~20105#2
[2TapTrio] The Two Tap Trio. A Night at the Fair. Nathan Gourley (fiddle), Norah Rendell (flute, vocals), Brian Miller (guitar, bouzouki, backing vocals).
20161#1
[ACwMoss] Alison Perkins and Nicolas Brown. All Covered with Moss. Alison Perkins (fiddle, vocals), Nicolas Brown (B pipes, B flute).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Longford Tinker
FD 1, FTIM, 4IC
Derrycrag Reel
PitS
An Mhaighdean Mhara
Ch 2
Tap the Barrel
HmrLshn
Four Courts
JKn 6
Pay the Girl Her Fourpence
Tda 3
John Doherty's
SMcK
Highlandman
2TapTrio
Played beforeOn Albums
Abbey Reel
PitS
O'Rourke's
Ch 2
Corney Is Coming
WC 2
South Bend Reel
Scglen 3
Toss the Feathers
JKn 6
Lucy Campbell
BICM
Old Torn Petticoat
MaRaf
Connaught Heifers
2TapTrio
Good Morning to Your Nightcap
ACwMoss

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 #1351 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #1415 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #606 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #20 in [WC] Pat Mitchell. The Dance Music of Willie Clancy. [available]
On page 124 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 237 of [NF] Allen Feldman. The Northern Fiddler. [available]
As tune #96 in [CRE 3] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3. [available]
As reel #135 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As reel #22 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
As reel #54 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): 1903