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Tune ID#1973 (Brosna Slide)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Brosna Slide about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording JDa 1 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars4-bar phrase structureMode ?
Slide32AABBA Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Brosna Slide, The / The Brosna Slide No. 1 / Brosna / The Lonesome Road to Dingle / Trip to the Jacks / The Trip to the Jacks (1st in set Brosna Slides on KoKerry; mislabeled as Hornpipe for 5th figure of Mealagh Valley Jig Set on MISD 6; 2nd in set Big Mikey's Slides on SBJM 2; 1st in set The Lonesome Road to Dingle on NNC 3) (also in G or C or D)
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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).
197710#1
[JOL 1] Johnny O'Leary. Music for the Set. Traditional Irish Music from Sliabh Luachra. Johnny O'Leary (accordion).
197710#1
[JDa 1] Jackie Daly. Music from Sliabh Luachra. Jackie Daly (accordion, concertina).
197716#1
[RshMtn] The Rushy Mountain. Jackie Daly (accordion).
~19771.5#1
[KoKerry] Jimmy Doyle & Dan O'Leary. Traditional Music from the Kingdom of Kerry. Jimmy Doyle (accordion), Dan O'Leary (fiddle).
~197713#1
[RshMtn] The Rushy Mountain. Johnny O'Leary (accordion).
~19782.1#1
[DDoody] Denis Doody. Kerry Music. Denis Doody (accordion).
~19962.9#1
[MISD 6] Donncha Lynch Trio. The Magic of Irish Set Dancing. Vol. 6. Donncha Lynch (accordion), Aogán Lynch (concertina), Donncha Lynch Jr. (guitar).
200018#2 (0:51)
[ACB 1] The Abbey Céilí Band. Bruach an tSuláin. Ger Murphy (accordion), Andrew O'Connell (fiddle), Liam Forde (banjo), Micheál Creedon (bass, keyboards).
~20048#2
[Boh 4] Bohola. 4. Jimmy Keane (piano accordion, vocals, foot), Sean Cleland (fiddle), Pat Broaders (dordan, vocals), Kat Eggleston (vocals).
~20094#3
[SBJM 2] Seamus Begley and Jim Murray. Éirí Go Lá. Seamus Begley (accordion, vocals), Jim Murray (guitar, electric bass, keyboards, backing vocals, accordion).
201113#1
[JigUp] The Jig Is Up!. First Steps. Judd Heartsill (accordion, flute), Larry Mallette (flute, whistle), Diehl Moran (fiddle, banjo), Matthew Lewis (guitar, flute, whistle), Robert Shaddox (bodhrán, vocals).
20121#1
[NNC 3] Niamh Ní Charra. Cuz. A Tribute to Terry "Cuz" Teahan. Niamh Ní Charra (fiddle, concertina, vocals, viola). For this tune: (fiddle), with Dónal Murphy (accordion).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Denis Murphy's		ACB 1
There Was a Lady		Boh 4
Where Is the Cat?		SBJM 2
Played beforeOn Albums
Scartaglen Slide		JOL 1, RshMtn, KoKerry
Where Is the Cat?		JDa 1, RshMtn
Man from Glountane		DDoody, Boh 4
An Chóisir		ACB 1
Padraig O'Keefe's Favourite		SBJM 2
Star above the Garter		JigUp
Dave Kennedy's Gift		NNC 3

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 #307 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #84 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
On page 29 of [SLoP] Paul Deloughery. Sliabh Luachra on Parade. [available]
On page 64 of [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As tune #65 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As tune #106 in [IBPS] Pat Conway. Ireland's Best Polkas and Slides. [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): 1927
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