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Tune ID#196 (Both Meat and Dhrink)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Both Meat and Dhrink about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording GFA (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Double jig32AABBG Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Both Meat and Dhrink / Both Meat and Drink / Deoch a bhfuil Beathú Inti / Both Meat and Drink Jig (1st in set Reavy's Jigs / Poirt Uí Riabhaigh on DoDnl 2; 1st in set Reavey's on SWlsh 3; 1st in set Teddy Bears' Picnic Jigs on ECoyKD) (also in F) (composed by Ed Reavy)
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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).
~197718#1
[DODnl 2] Danny O'Donnell. Ón tSean-Am Anall. Danny O'Donnell (fiddle).
~19789#1
[LCTM] Liz Carroll & Tommy Maguire. Kiss Me Kate. Liz Carroll (fiddle), Tommy Maguire (accordion).
19885#3 (4:59)
[GFA] The Green Fields of America. Live in Concert. Mick Moloney (banjo, mandolin, guitar, tres, vocals), Robbie O'Connell (guitar, vocals), Jimmy Keane (piano accordion, synthesizers, vocals), Eileen Ivers (fiddle), Seamus Egan (pipes, flute, whistle, bodhrán, tres).
~19961#1
[SWlsh 3] Seamus Walshe. Clare Accordion. Seamus Walshe (accordion).
~20094#2
[JWynn 2] John Wynne. Ar nós na Gaoithe. Like the Wind. John Wynne (flute). For this tune: (Eb flute).
~20139#1
[ECoyKD] Éamonn Coyne and Kris Drever. Storymap. Éamonn Coyne (banjo, guitar), Kris Drever (guitar, vocals, mandolin).
~20152#2
[OMcD 2] Oisín Mac Diarmada. The Green Branch. An Géagán Glas. Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle).
~20168#1
[BCstls 1] Brenda Castles. Indeedin You Needn't Bother. Brenda Castles (concertina).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Lovely Bannion
GFA
Wishing Well
JWynn 2
Mixing the Punch
OMcD 2
Played beforeOn Albums
Town of Cootehill
DODnl 2
Hidden Ireland
LCTM
Fiddler's Wife
GFA
Castleblayney Piper
SWlsh 3
Sliabh Bloom
ECoyKD
Hide and Go Seek
BCstls 1

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 #79 in [ER] Joseph M. Reavy (compiler). The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy. [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): 1977