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Tune ID#87 (As I Went up to Dublin City)

Transcription of first 2 bars of As I Went up to Dublin City about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording SDI 1 (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Polka32AABBD Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
As I Went up to Dublin City / The Spanish Lady / Paddy Doyle's Ass / Doran's Ass / Finnigan's Wake / The French Musician / Siege of Ennis / Thady Regan (for 2nd figure of dance Off to Skelligs in book R; as 3rd tune for dance The Seige of Ennis [sic] in book A; for dance Walls of Limerick in book MM) (also in G, A, or C; also as single reel, singled)
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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).
19281.21#1
[JMcK] John McKenna. The Music and Life of John McKenna. 'The Buck from the Mountain'. John McKenna (flute, whistle, lilting, vocals). For this tune: (flute), with James Morrison (fiddle).
19922.4#2
[SDI 1] Set Dances of Ireland. Volume 1. Michael Tubridy (flute), Tommy McCarthy (concertina), Junior Crehan (fiddle), Eamon McGivney (fiddle).
~200020#1
[BICM] Best of Irish Ceili Music. Disc 5 of Celtic Souls. Irish Celtic Ballads & Traditional Music. Fred Hanna Ceili Band (accordion).
20024#1
[DLB] Donncha Lynch Band. Timmy 'the Brit' McCarthy's Set Dances of Cork and Kerry. Donncha Lynch (accordion), Aogan Lynch (concertina), Ronan Lynch (fiddle), Donncha Lynch, Jr. (guitar).
~200815#2
[TOCnnr] Timmy O'Connor. As It Was in Toureendarby. Timmy O'Connor (accordion).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue		SDI 1
Leather Away with the Wattle O		TOCnnr
Played beforeOn Albums
Tripping on the Mountain		JMcK
Maggie in the Wood		SDI 1
Siege of Ennis		BICM

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 #265 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #296#2 in volume 2 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
On page 135 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #118#3 in [A] Hugh McDermott. Allan's "Irish Fiddler." [available]
As misc #35 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 40 of [SLoP] Paul Deloughery. Sliabh Luachra on Parade. [available]
As polka #96 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. [available]
As tune #55 in [IBPS] Pat Conway. Ireland's Best Polkas and Slides. [available]
On page 238 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As polka #47 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [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
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