Tune Search
Sign in or join  to see your:     Home   Playlists   Practice Machine   Stats   Friends   Albums   Preferences   Sign out
The Irish Traditional Music Tune Index

Tune ID#3777 (Sally Reel)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Sally Reel about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording AL2 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Fling16ABA Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Sally Reel, The / Old Peter Street / The Donegal Peter Street / Tom Billy's / Denis Murphy's Quirky Fling (2nd in mislabeled set Killavil Fancy / Coleman's Cross on OMcA) (also in D or G: also described and played as a barndance or hornpipe; compare 1st part with 1st part of Maggie Pickens #1179)
To get to your personal tune notes, Log in or Create an account
Note shared with my friends:

Note to myself only:
9 members play this tune.
0 of them are your friends.

Suggest this Tune

To:
Comment to friend:
map of tune distribution
Where members are who play this tune.

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.

Click play below to hear the first 12 seconds.
Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune?
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~19512.23#1
19877#2
[DMeehan] Danny Meehan. Navvy on the Shore. Danny Meehan (fiddle).
~199512#2
[MotS 2] Monks of the Screw. Brathar na nÓl. Timmy O'Connor (accordion), Paudy Scully (flute), Tim Browne (fiddle, bouzouki, mandolin), John Drew (mandocello), Dan Curtin (fiddle, feet), Timmy O'Shea (guitar, vocals).
~20073#4 (3:52)
[OMcA] Oisín McAuley. Far from the Hills of Donegal. Oisín McAuley (fiddle, guitar).
~20113#1
[DdBzz] Mick O'Brien and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. Deadly Buzz. Aoibhinn Crónán. Mick O'Brien (pipes, whistle, flute), Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (hardanger fiddle, fiddle, whistle). For this tune: (hardanger fiddle), (F flute).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Thadelo's
MotS 2
Doctor Gilbert
DMeehan
Jug of Punch
OMcA
Played beforeOn Albums
Killavil Fancy
OMcA
Jimmy Doyle's Polka
DdBzz

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 #218 in [CRE 5] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 5.
As reel #161 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

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): 1951