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Tune ID#3143 (Crossroads Fling)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Crossroads Fling 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 2 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars4-bar phrase structureMode ?
Slide32AABBD Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Crossroads Fling / The Crossroads Fling / Flaing an Chrosaire / Kielys Slide / Kiely’s / O'Leary's (2nd in set Let Down the Blade on Drv 2) (also in G; the setting in book R, included here, is not quite the same tune)
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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).
~199513#2
[Drv 2] Dervish. Playing with Fire. Cathy Jordan (vocals, bodhrán, bones), Shane Mitchell (accordion), Shane Mc Aleer (fiddle), Liam Kelly (flute, whistle, vocals), Brian Mc Donagh (mandola, mandolin, guitar, vocals, bassola), Michael Holmes (bouzouki, guitar).
~199513#1
[JDa 2] Jackie Daly. Domhnach Is Dálach. Many's a Wild Night. Jackie Daly (accordion).
~200613#3
[BHghs 2] Brian Hughes. Whirlwind. Brian Hughes (whistle). For this tune: (D whistle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Micko Russell's Slide		Drv 2
Michael Murphy's		BHghs 2
Played beforeOn Albums
Cock o' The North		JDa 2
Let Down the Blade		Drv 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 #55 in [CRE 4] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 4. [available]
As tune #133 in volume 3 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As slide #82 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc 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): 1900
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