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Tune ID#551 (Drunken Tailor)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Drunken Tailor about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording IDM 1 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel32AABBE Dorian
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Drunken Tailor, The / The Drunken Reel / The Drinking Reel (compare 1st part with 1st part of Pigeon on the Gate #1581 and with 1st part of Yorkshire Lasses #7874)
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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).
19469#1
[IDM 1] Irish Dance Music. John Howard (fiddle), Michael Grogan (accordion).
201418#2
[SSands 1] Seamus Sands. Across Bridges. Traditional Irish Fiddle Playing. Seamus Sands (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Johnny's Gone to France		SSands 1
Played beforeOn Albums
Teetotaller		IDM 1
Sleeping Maggie		SSands 1

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.
On page 236 of [NF] Allen Feldman. The Northern Fiddler. [available]
As reel #160 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As reel #48 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan.

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): 1946
Please cite your source when you use information from this document.
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