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Tune ID#2093 (Young Catherine)

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Mode ?
AirA Minor
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Young Catherine / As I Went Forth to View the Plain (also in G or D) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
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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).
~19923#1
[CR 1] Craobh Rua. The More That's Said the Less the Better. Mark Donnelly (pipes, whistle), Michael Cassidy (fiddle), Brian Connolly (banjo, mandolin, bodhrán), Jim Byrne (guitar, mandola, vocals). For this tune: 1st times Mark Donnelly (pipes).
~199310#1
[SnugBl] Paddy O'Brien, Jamie Gans, Daithi Sproule. Snug in the Blanket. Paddy O'Brien (accordion), Jamie Gans (fiddle), Daithi Sproule (guitar). For this tune: 1st time Jamie (fiddle).
~20075#1
[DS 2] Dáithí Sproule. The Crow in the Sun. Dáithí Sproule (guitar).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played beforeOn Albums
Lad O'Beirne's
SnugBl
Red Van
DS 2

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 #628 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
On page 227 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 20 of [Crln] The Complete Works of O'Carolan. [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