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Tune ID#3793 (A Letter from Home)

Transcription of first 2 bars of A Letter from Home about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording MotS 3 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel16ABG Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
A Letter from Home / A Ha'penny for a Cotton Ball / Pride of Roxbury (also reversed parts, also in D) (compare distantly and reversed parts to Roving Bachelor #3092)
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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).
~19966#1
[DH 1] Dan Herlihy and Friends. The Night of the Fair. Traditional Irish Music from Sliabh Luachra. Dan Herlihy (accordion).
~20008#2
[MotS 3] Monks of the Screw Trio. Brathar na nÓl. Paudy Scully (flute), Dan Curtain [Curtin] (fiddle), Tim Browne (fiddle).
~20119#2
[DBrder] Dan Brouder. "The Lark's Air". Dan Brouder (accordion, melodeon).
~20213#1
[BrtDrkly] Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen. Brightly or Darkly. Nathan Gourley (fiddle, guitar, bouzouki), Laura Feddersen (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Alice's Reel		MotS 3
Johnny's Gone to France		DBrder
Played beforeOn Albums
Papa's Pet		DH 1
Mickey Rattler's		DBrder
Paddy Joe Tighe's		BrtDrkly

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 #1279 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
On page 110 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [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
Please cite your source when you use information from this document.
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