TUNES OF THE MUNSTER PIPERS: IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM THE JAMES GOODMAN MANUSCRIPTS
INFORMATION SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
by Lisa Shields
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Online version of pages 217-237 of Tunes of the Munster Pipers 2: Irish Traditional Music from the James Goodman Manuscripts, ed. Hugh & Lisa Shields, volume 2, Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2013, ISBN 978-0-9532704-5-3 (hbk), 978-0-9532704-6-0 (pbk), available from ITMA's shop
GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
BB: Breandán Breathnach (1912-85), uilleann piper, music collector, writer and organizer
Car; Carolan: Turlough Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin, 1670-1738), harper and composer
FMSI: Folk Music Society of Ireland / Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann
ESEM: European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
HS: Hugh Shields
Hud: Henry P. Hudson (1798-1889), music collector, musical editor of The citizen (to which he contributed tunes from his own manuscript collection)
ITMA: Irish Traditional Music Archive
JEP: John Edward Pigot
JG, SG: James Goodman (Séamus Gudman(n))
JM: Joly music collection of the National Library of Ireland
Joyce: Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914), historian, writer, music collector and editor
Levey: R. M. Levey: pseudonym of R.M. O'Shaughnessy (1811-99), violin teacher and music collector
F; Forde: William Forde (c. 1795-1850), musician, writer on music and music collector
LS: Lisa Shields
Moore: Thomas Moore (1779-1852), poet, musician and popularizer of Irish music
NLI: National Library of Ireland
NPU: Na Píobairí Uilleann [society of uilleann pipers, Dublin]
O'D; O'Daly: John O'Daly (1800-78), publisher, bookseller and antiquarian
Petrie: George Petrie (c. 1790-1866), artist and music collector
Pigot; JEP: John Edward Pigot (1822-71), writer, musician and lawyer
Pipes: incipits of 'piping tunes' written by Goodman in his Riverview notebook, TCD MS 11320, pages 18-19, 24-31, 39-41)
SG: Séamus Gudman(n) (James Goodman)
TCD: Trinity College Dublin
TMP 1: The tunes of the Munster pipers [vol. 1]
TMP 2: The tunes of the Munster pipers, vol. 2
Tunes: selection of tunes copied by Goodman into his unfinished 'fair copy' music book,
TCD MS 1132
, pages 1-12
Words: song texts written by Goodman into his 'Riverview' notebook, TCD MS 11320 , pages 20-24, 43-134
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES
Bonfield, Caitlín, 'Manuscript music in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy', in Aloys Fleischmann, ed., Music in Ireland: a symposium, Cork & Oxford: Cork University Press, 1952:
22-32 (The online pdf version, revised and updated by Siobhán Fitzpatrick in 2008, is no longer available)
Breathnach, Breandán, Thematic index of dance tunes on cards, with numerical codes based on the stressed notes of musical incipits (several versions, unpublished, housed in the Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin)
Brown, Stephen, A guide to books in Ireland. Part 1: Prose literature, poetry, music and plays, 2nd edition, Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1970
Cannon, Roderick D., ed., A bibliography of bagpipe music, Edinburgh: John Donald, 1980
Deasy, Marian, 'New edition of airs and dance tunes from the music manuscripts of George Petrie LL.D., and a survey of his work as a collector of Irish folk music', 2 vols, Ph.D. thesis, National University of Ireland, University College Dublin, 1982
Fleischmann, Aloys, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin & Paul McGettrick, eds, Sources of Irish traditional music c. 1600-1855, 2 vols, New York & London: Garland, 1998
Gore, Charles, Morag Anne Elder & Lynn Morrison, eds., Scottish fiddle music index. Tune titles for the 18th & 19th century printed collections, Musselburgh, Scotland: Amaising Publishing House, 1994 (see also Electronic resources below)
Kidson, Frank, British music publishers, printers and engravers, London: W.E. Hill & Sons [1900]
Krummel, D.W., & Stanley Sadie, eds., Music printing and publishing, New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990
National Library of Ireland, Joly collection (early printed music books and sheet music, mainly Irish) • JM
Ní Chinnéide, Veronica, 'The sources of Moore's melodies', Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 89 (1959), part 2, 109-134
O'Neill, Francis, Irish music: a fascinating hobby, Chicago: The Regan Printing House, 1910
Trinity College Library, Dublin: early printed books and special collections; Townley Hall collection (contains about 1,000 pieces of music printed in Dublin, London and Paris between 1760 and 1820, with many items duplicated in the NLI Joly music collection)
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Most major libraries now have online catalogues, and these are not listed here.
Adams, John, & Chris Partington, eds,
The Village Music Project : manuscripts of English social musicians from the 17th century onwards; html files and music files; List of manuscripts
in pdf and abc format • VMP
Amhráin: see Uí Dhonnabháin
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, bibliothèque numérique • BNF Gallica
Copac: national, academic, and specialist library catalogue UK and Ireland, (replaced in August 2019 by Library Hub Discover — see below)
Duggan, Bryan, creator, Dublin,
Tunepal: a query-by-playing search engine for traditional tunes
Easmes, Early American secular music and its European sources: see Keller
Electric Scotland, USA LLC, 1495 Pond Creek Rd, Stone, KY 41567-7055: links to Scottish cultural material, including digital images and indexes for John Grieg's six-volume collection
Scots Minstrelsie [c. 1893]) •
Grieg Minstrelsie
Europeana Foundation: portal for EU digitized cultural heritage collections • Europeana
Fiddler's companion: see Kuntz
Gallica: see Bibliothèque nationale de France
Gore, Charles, ed., The Scottish music index, Inverness: Highland Music Trust [2012-]
IMSLP, Petrucci music library (free public-domain sheet music in pdf format), Wilmington, Delaware: Project Petrucci LLC, 2006- • IMSLP
Internet Archive, San Francisco [2001-]: (searchable database which locates and downloads items in various digital formats. Used here for accessing early printed music collections in pdf format, especially those from the National Library of Scotland
Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin: digitized books,
images,
manuscripts and videos,
and more than 6,000 + interactive music scores with pdfs as well as the James Goodman manuscript music collection (in association with Trinity College, Dublin – see Manuscripts below for details). • ITMA
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Lester S. Levy collection of sheet music (part of special collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library) • JHU
Keller, Robert M., Raoul F. Camus, Kate Van Winkle Keller & Susan Cifaldi, eds, Early American secular music and its European sources, 1589-1839: an index
(EAMES), Annapolis, Maryland: The Colonial Music Institute, 2002, revised 2004
Lester S. Levy collection of sheet music: see Johns Hopkins University
Kuntz, Andrew, ed., The fiddler's companion, 2003–2012: searchable bibliographic database of mainly Irish and Scottish dance music, with musical examples in abc format, currently revised as The Traditional Tune Archive (TTA)
Libary Hub Discover: an excellent way to discover and search 100+
UK and Irish academic, national and special library collections (formerly known as Copac)
Music Australia: see National Library of Australia
Music for the nation: see Washington: Library of Congress
Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin: pdfs of early collections; videos; journal An Píobaire •
NPU
National Library of Australia, Canberra: Trove, incorporating the former Music Australia website
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh: digitized music collections in pdf format, accessed by searching the Internet Archive • NLS
Ng, Alan, ed., Irish traditional music tune index. Alan Ng's tunography (Irish Tune Info)
NLS:see National Library of Scotland
NPU: see Na Píobairí Uilleann
Petrucci music library: see IMSLP
Scottish music index: see Gore
Sean Reid Society: dedicated to the study of the Irish Union or Uilleann pipes
Sean Reid Society Journal, The SRSJ
SRSJ : see Sean Reid Society Journal
Trove: see National Library of Australia
The Traditional Tune Archive (TTA: (searchable bibliographic database of mainly Irish and Scottish dance music, with musical examples in abc format)— see Kuntz
Tunepal: see Duggan
Village music project (VMP): see Adams & Partington
Uí Dhonnabháin, Miriam, Amhráin Goodman : translations of Canon James Goodman's song texts (under construction)
Washington: Library of Congress, Music Division: Music for the nation: American sheet music
1820-1860, 1870-1885
WorldCat, Dublin, Ohio: The Online Computer Library Centre, Inc., (OCLC), 2001-2012: access to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
Boole Library: see University College Cork
Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin:
* Curtin manuscript: Slieve Luachra [mid-19th century]: facsimile – and also with interactive scores with pdfs
•
Curtin MS
*Goodman MS (in Petrie Manuscript folder 5): list of titles of Irish airs, sent to George Petrie by James Goodman [1850s] (Full list published in TMP 2 p. xiv)
* Grier MSS, written in Leitrim by Stephen Grier
(c.1824–1894: facsimiles, also interactive scores with pdfs
•
Grier MS
* O'Keeffe MSS: ITMA-Collins MSS of the famous Sliabh Luachra
fiddle player and travelling fiddle-master Padraig O'Keeffe (1887-1963), including interactive scores with pdfs
•
POK
National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin:
Fitzgerald MS ('James Buckley, book 1'): photocopy of music manuscript of William Fitzgerald, fiddler, Gleannrie [Conrea?], Co Cork [Ballydesmond?, 1860s] •
Fitzgerald MS
National Library of Ireland, Dublin:
Patrick Weston Joyce
manuscripts
Joly MS 25 (collected chiefly in Co Limerick in 1856) • Early Joyce MS
Joyce’s final manuscripts, 1899–1912:
MS 2982 (tune [1], p. 1–tune 335, p. 127) • Final Joyce MSS 1
continued as
MS 2983 (tune 336, p. 128–tune 878, p. 293)
(Tunes no 336—355, 334–5 & perhaps more are copied
from the Goodman collection) • Final Joyce MSS 2
Royal Irish Academy, Dublin:
William Forde collection: MS 24 0 19
James Hardiman music manuscript: MS 23 F 22 (from which Pigot copied some music)
Pigot, John Edward Pigot music manuscripts: MSS 24 0 20; 24 0 21 (paged continuously) •
P, Pigot, JEP
Trinity College Dublin:
James Goodman manuscripts (hosted by ITMA)
MSS 3194,
3195, 3196, 3197: four vols of tunes from oral tradition and from manuscript or printed sources (the basis of this edition)
MS 11320: miscellaneous theological writings etc, but also including song texts and verse on pages 20-24, 43-134 • Words, and incipits of 131 'piping tunes' (pages 18-19, 24-31, 39-41) • Pipes
MS 11321: 'Irish music of every description, collected and transcribed, from various sources, by James Goodman' (fair copies of 54 tunes, all airs)
•
Tunes
All the Goodman MSS above may also be viewed on line at TCD
University College Cork, Boole Library:
MS collection of Tadhg Ó Donnchadha ('Torna'): LSS Thorna 155-56; MS 59 (T.lix)
MS 196: notebook from Goodman's TCD college days, containing Irish lays, extracts from theological textbooks, family accounts, miscellaneous jottings and also material relating to his music collecting •
UCC
University College Cork, Boole Library:
MS collection of Tadhg Ó Donnchadha ('Torna'): LSS Thorna 155-56; MS 59 (T.lix)
MS 196: notebook from Goodman's TCD college days, containing Irish lays, extracts from theological textbooks, family accounts, miscellaneous jottings and also material relating to his music collecting •
UCC
University College Dublin: see National Folklore Collection
OTHER SOURCES REFERENCED
Capitalization and punctuation have been normalized. Asterisks indicate some availability from online electronic sources.
100: see One hundred
150: see
One hundred and fifty
300: see Three hundred
*[Aird, James, and continued after his death] A selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and foreign airs adapted for/to the fife, violin, or German flute, 6 vols:
One, (bound with 2) Glasgow: James Aird [1782];
Two, Glasgow: Jas. Aird [1785]; selection .....
Three, (bound with 4) Glasgow: J. McFadyen [1788];
Four, Glasgow: J. McFadyen [c. 1796];
Five, (bound with 6) Glasgow: J. McFadyen [1797];
Aird’s Sixth and last volume of ...., Glasgow: A. MacGown Junr [c. 1803] (NLS pdfs) •
Aird 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Albert, Charles L.N. d', The bridal polka composed and dedicated to Monr. Bizet Michau, London: Chappell, n.d. (JM 3906) •
Albert
Bridal polka
Alburger, Mary Ann, Scottish fiddlers and their music, London: V. Gollancz, 1983
[Alday, P., ed.] Alday's collection of country dances, Dublin: P. Alday [c. 1815] (NLI Add Mus 9492) •
Alday 1815
-, Alday's select collection of country dances, waltzes, quadrilles &c., Dublin: Paul Alday [c. 1818] (JM 5230) •Alday 1818
Alex Lee Away away: see Lee, Alexander
[Alexander, I., ed.] The flowers of the Emerald Isle, or two hundred favorite Irish melodies, London: I. Alexander [c. 1840?] (NLI Add Mus 10,779) •
Alexander Flowers
-, A new series of Alexander's scrap book, for the flute, violin, flageolet, etc., London: I. Alexander [c. 1845] (NLI Add Mus 10,777, vols 7 & 8) •
Alexander's scrap book new series
*[Alexander, J., ed.], Alexander's fifty new Irish and Scotch reels and hornpipes, London: J.Alexander, 101 Leadenhall Strt [c 1825]: VMP pdfs & abc files •
Alexander's fifty
*-, Alexander's new scrap book, containing one thousand favorite airs for the flute, violin or flageolet. In 6 vols.
London: J. Alexander & Co. [c. 1850?] (at the end of vol. 6 'This work will be continued, until two thousand airs are completed':
ITMA Vol 6 pdf •
Alexander's new scrap book
(6
[Alexander, John, ed.] The scrap book, for the flute, violin or Kent bugle, 6? vols of 6 nos each [London]: published for John Alexander at Sandford's music warehouse [c.1820?] (NLI Add Mus 10,769, vols 1, 2 & 5) • Alexander's scrap book
Amateurs companion, being a rare selection of Irish & Scotch melodies, The, Dublin: MacLean, at the Musical Commission Warehouse, 15 Essex Quay [1821?] •Amateurs companion
Amhráin Goodman: see Uí Dhonnabháin Electronic
Resources (Uí Dhonnabháin )
An Píobaire: see Píobaire
*Anderson's budget of strathspeys, reels & country dances: for the German-flute or violin, vol. 1, 2nd ed., Edinburgh etc.: J. Anderson etc. [c. 1821]
NLS pdf • Anderson's budget
Aria: see Urquahart
Ashman, Gordon, ed., The Ironbridge hornpipe: a Shropshire tune collection from John Moore's manuscripts, Blyth (Northumberland): Dragonfly Music, 1991 • Ashman
BBJ : see Breathnach
B1, B2, B3 : see Bunting
Bilse, B., Sturm marsch galop, for the pianoforte, London: R. Addison, n.d. (JM 3881) • Bilse Sturm
Bishop, Henry Rowley, & Edward Fitzball, The bloom is on the rye, London: Goulding & d'Almaine [c. 1830] •
Bishop & Fitzball
Boss Murphy: see Moloney
Bowen, Desmond, The Protestant crusade in Ireland 1800-1870, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1978 • Bowen 1978
Bowen, Robin Huw, ed., Tro Llaw : 200 o bibddawnsiau Cymreig o Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru [A collection of 200 Welsh hornpipes from the National Library of Wales] •
Bowen 200 Welsh hornpipes
Bradshaw, Harry, Nicholas Carolan & Jackie Small, eds, The Westmeath Hunt. William Mullaly: the first Irish concertina player on record, Dublin: Viva Voce & Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2011, booklet and Cd (VV-ITMA CD 101) •
Mullaly
Brady, W. Maziere, Clerical and parochial records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, 3 vols, Dublin: printed for the author by Alexander Thom, 1863-64 •
Brady
Braham [John], The King, God bless him!, Dublin: Goulding & d'Almaine [c. 1828] (JM 246) • Braham The King
Breathnach, Breandán, ed., Ceol rince na hÉireann I, Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1963 •
CRÉ 1
-, ed., -, II, Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1976 • CRÉ 2
-, ed., -, III, Baile Átha Cliath: An Gúm, 1985 •
CRÉ 3
-, collector, & Jackie Small, ed., Ceol rince na hÉireann IV, V, Baile Átha Cliath: An Gúm, 1996, 1999 •
CRÉ 4, 5
-, 'Piper Jackson', IFMS 2 (1974-75) 41-57 •
BBJ
-, 'Séamus Goodman (1828-1896) bailitheoir ceoil', Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 6 (1973) 152-71 •
Breathnach 1973
-, 'Máirseáil Alasdruim', Ceol vol 3 no 2 (April 1968) 38-43 • Breathnach 1968
-, 'Between the jigs and the reels', Ceol vol 5 no 2 (March 1982) 43-48 [an explanation of his system of numerical coding] •
Breathnach 1982
-, 'The pipers of Kerry', IFMS 4 (1985) 5-29 • Breathnach 1985
Breathnach, Fr Pádruig, ed., Sídh-cheól, Dublin: Brún agus Ó Nóláin, [Brown and Nolan]
1924 (vol. 1), 1926 (vol. 2) • Sídh-cheól 1, 2
*[Bremner, Robert, ed.] A collection of Scots reels or country dances, London: Robert Bremner [1760s]
IMSLP pdf •Bremner Scots reels
*-, Thirty Scots songs for a voice and harpsichord, London: R. Bremner [1759]
IMSLP pdf •
Bremner
Thirty Scots songs
*British minstrel, and musical and literary miscellany, The, Glasgow: William Hamilton, n.d.
IMSLP pdfs of vols 1-3 •Hamilton
British Minstrel
[Browne, D., ed.] Browne's collection of country dances (Browne's dances no 5), Dublin: D. Browne, n.d. (JM 5236) • Browne CDs
Browne family MS: see VMP
*Bunting, Edward, ed., A general collection of the ancient Irish music, vol. 1, London: Preston, 1797
ITMA pdf, also
interactive scores with pdfs • B1
*-, ed A general collection of the ancient Irish music, vol. 2 (no more published), London: Clementi, 1809
ITMA pdf, also
interactive scores with pdfs:
*-, ed., The ancient music of Ireland arranged for the pianoforte, Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1840
IMSLP pdf • B3
Byrne, Jim, 'Canon Goodman', Journal of the Skibbereen and District Historical Society 1 (1985) 53-95 • Byrne 1985
* Caledonian musical repository, The, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Caledonian Press, 1811, with additional illustrated title page (taken from the original 1806 edition?) — ‘Crosby’s Caledonian musical repository, London: printed for B. Crosby & Co.’
NLS pdf • Crosby
Caledonian
*Cameron's selection of violin music: containing all the most popular airs, marches, strathspeys, reels, hornpipes, jigs, country dances,
quicksteps, quadrilles, polkas, Glasgow: George Cameron, 1859
ITMA pdf • Cameron
[Campbell, William, ed.] Campbell's collection of new & favorite country dances & str. reels: London: Wm Campbell or R. Birchall, 1790-1817 (27 dance books with varied titles)
-, Campbell's eighth collection of the newest & most favorite country dances and reels, London: Wm Campbell, n.d. • Campbell 8
-, Campbell's 11th book of country dances and strathspey reels, London: Wm Campbell, n.d. •Campbell
11
, Richard, ed., The Gow collection of Scottish dance music, New York: Oak publications, 1986 • Carlin
Carlisle MS: see
VMP
*Carolan, Nicholas, 'More James Goodman music manuscripts', An piobaire vol 4 no 45 (April 2008) 23–25 • Carolan 2008
-, 'The Forde-Pigot collection of Irish traditional music', in Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Bernadette Cunningham & Siobhán Fitzpatrick, eds; Petra Schnabel, picture ed., Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009: 257-67 • Carolan 2009
-, 'An tUrramach James Goodman (1826-96), fear eaglasta, ceoltóir, agus bailitheoir ceoil', in Foinn agus focail. Léachtaí Cholm Cille 40, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, ed., Maynooth: An Sagart, 2010: 7-19 • Carolan 2010
*-, ed., A collection of the most celebrated Irish tunes proper for the violin, German flute or hautboy,
by John & William Neal, Dublin [1724], 2nd (enlarged) facsimile edition, Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive in association with the Folk Music
Society of Ireland, 2010 (first facsimile edition published Dublin: FMSI, 1986).
ITMA interactive scores with pdfs •
Neal
CIT
*-, 'The Goodman phenomenon', An Píobaire vol 13 no 1 (January 2017) 25–28 • Carolan 2017
Citizen: see also Dublin
magazine, Dublin monthly magazine
Citizen; a monthly journal of politics, literature, and art, The, vol. 1, Nov 1839-May 1840; Dublin: Machen & Company, vol. 2, June-Dec 1840, Dublin: James Philip Doyle, 1840 (continued as The citizen; or Dublin monthly magazine. These two volumes do not contain any music scores.
*Citizen; or Dublin monthly magazine, The (continuation of The citizen; a monthly journal of politics, literature, and art
), vol. 3, Jan-June 1841, vol. 4, July-Dec 1841, Dublin: Samuel J. Machen, 1841 (continued as The Dublin monthly magazine.
The two titles combined contained music supplements of 106 tunes called 'The native music of Ireland'.)
ITMA pdf •
Citizen
Clare MS: see
VMP
*Clarke, William, MS music book [Norfolk, mid-19th century]. Internet Archive pdf • Clarke MS
Clementi [Muzio], Clementi's variations to The black joke for the piano-forte or harpsicord [sic], Dublin: Edmund Lee, n.d. (JM 4359, watermark 1794) • Clementi's variations
*Clinton, John, ed., Gems of Ireland [London?, c. 1840]
IMSLP pdf • Clinton
*Colclough, S.T., New and complete instructions for the union pipes, Dublin: William Power [c. 1820?]
• Colclough
Collection of Irish airs for the flute, violin or flageolet, arranged as duetts or solos, A, 2 vols of 6 numbers each, Dublin: E. McCullagh, n.d. [between 1820 & 1850] (JM 5419, cf JM 5420) [Thomas Moore's melodies, without attribution to Moore] •
McC
Colthurst, E., Innisfail or the Irish scripture reader, London: Nisbet, 1841 •
Colthurst 1841
[Cooke, Bartlett, ed.] Cooke's selection of the present favorite country dances for the year, Dublin: B. Cooke [1797] •Cooke 1797
-, Forty-eight Irish country dances, Dublin: B. Cooke [c. 1805] (JM 5252) •
Cooke
48 Irish CDs
Cooke, T., Sweet Robin, a celebrated ballad, as sung at the Theatre Royal by Mrs. Cooke, Dublin: Goulding, n.d. (JM 3435, watermark 1810) • Cooke
Sweet Robin
Corri, Domenico, A new & complete collection of the most favourite Scots songs, Edinburgh: Corri & Sutherland [c. 1783] (JM 1137) • Corri
Cowell, A, The blind man's bride, ballad written by the Honble Mrs. Norton, and inscribed to The Honble Mrs. Leicester Stanhope, the music by Miss A. Cowell (NLI MS MU -vc22 (11)) •
Cowell
Cramer, J.B, Rousseau's dream, an air with variations for the piano forte . . . , London: S. Chappell [1814] •
Cramer
CRÉ: see Breathnach
Croker, Thomas Crofton, Researches in the south of Ireland, London: John Murray, 1824 • Croker Researches
Crosby Caledonian: see
Caledonian musical repository
*Crosby's Irish musical repository, London: B: Crosby & Co. [1808?]
Internet Archive pdf • Crosby
Irish
[Cross, Betty, et al., eds] Abbeystrewry a parish memoir: published for the centenary of the rebuilding of Abbeystrewry Church, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Blarney: Forum Publications [1991] •
Cross 1991
Curtin MS: see Manuscript Sources (Irish Traditional Music Archive)
d'Albert: see Albert
Dánta PF: see Ua Duinnín
Davidson 150 Scotch songs: see One hundred and fifty Scotch songs
*Davidson's collection of Scottish melody, London: G.H. Davidson [1860] NLS pdf • Davidson's collection
Davidson's instrumental gems, consisting of a choice collection of popular and standard airs, &c., no II, London: G.H. Davidson, n.d. (JM 4547) •Davidson's instrumental gems
Davidson's musical miracles: see One hundred and fifty Scotch songs
Davidson's universal melodist, vol. 1 (of 2), London: G.H. Davidson, 1853 •
Davidson's universal melodist 1
De Brún, Pádraig, Clár lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge Choláiste Ollscoile Chorcaí: cnuasach Thorna, 2 vols, Dublin: Cló Bhreanainn, 1967 •
De Brun 1967
De hÍde, Dubhghlas [Douglas Hyde], Mise agus an Connradh (go dtí 1905), Baile A?tha Cliath [Dublin]: Oifig an tSola?thair, 1937 • Hyde 1937
Densari, P.Y., arranger, Jullien's "Olga", or princess waltz, New York: S. Pearson, 1853 • Densari "Olga"
[Dibdin, Charles] The jolly young waterman, Dublin: Elizh. Rhames, n.d. • Dibdin
Dick, James C., ed., The songs of Robert Burns, London & New York: H. Frowde, 1903 •
Dick
Dineen: see Ua Duinnín
*Donnelly, Seán, 'Dublin pipemakers, the Coynes and Doogan', An Píobaire, Vol 2 no 11 (October 1981) •Donnelly 1981
-, 'An eighteenth-century minister and piper', Ulster Folk Life 46 (2000) 9-23 •
Donnelly 2000
*-, 'Colonel Taylor's reel', An Píobaire, Vol 3 no 2 (March 1990) 12-15 •
Donnelly 1990
DOS: see O'Sullivan, Donal
DubMag: see Dublin magazine.
*Dublin magazine. The (continuation of The Dublin monthly magazine), Jan-April 1843, Dublin: T. O'Gorman, 1843 ITMA pdf •
DubMag
Dublin monthly magazine, The (continuation of The citizen), Jan-June 1842, July-Dec 1842, Dublin: Samuel J Machen, 1842.
Continued as The Dublin magazine, Jan-April 1843
•
DubMMag
DubMMag: see Dublin
monthly magazine.
Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal, The, 8 vols, Dublin: W. Curry, jun. & Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.,1833-80 • Dublin University magazine
Duff, Archd, ed., Part first of A choice selection of minuets, favourite airs, hornpipes, waltzes etc., Edinburgh: Johnson & Anderson [1811-13] (JM 5714) • Duff
Choice selection
Duke of York's new slow march, Dublin: Lee [c. 1805] (JM 4271) • Lee Duke of York's
Dun, Finlay, ed., Vocal melodies of Scotland, Edinburgh: Patterson & Sons [1884?] • Dun VMS
Dunois, M., 9th set or Navarino quadrilles, containing the air in Mozart's "Il Seraglio", London: Mori & Lavenu [1829] •
Dunois
Duval of Dublin's second collection of quadrilles... to which is added a new waltz by Sigr. Spagnoletti the much admired Stop waltz..., Dublin: I. Willis, n.d. (JM 5272). •Duval
*Edinburgh repository of music, containing the most select English, Scottish & Irish airs, vols 1-3, Edinburgh: J. Sutherland [1818-25]. NLS pdf • Edin repos mus 1,2,3
Electric Scotland: see Electronic Resources.
Erionnach
[pseudonym of George Sigerson], The poets and poetry of Munster, 2nd series, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1860 • PPM2
Ethiopian songs 108: see
A selection of the most popular Ethiopian songs
Ethiopian songs 2nd series: see Second series
[Fitzmaurice, Richard, ed.] Fitzmaurice's new collection of Irish tunes. Adapted for the piano forte, union pipe, flute, & violin,
no 2, no 3, no 5, Edinburgh: Printed by A. Rochead & Son [c. 1806-09?]
• Fitzmaurice 2, 3, 5
Flowers of Irish melody: see Henderson
Flute player's pocket companion: see Forrester
Forde, William, ed., R. Cocks & Co.'s 102 national country dances, published in ten separate sets, London: R. Cocks & Co. [1840s] (JM 5240-48) • Forde NCDs
-, ed., 300 national melodies of the British Isles. Vol. 1. 100 English & Welsh airs. Vol. 2. 100 Scotch airs. Vol. 3. 100 Irish airs, London: R. Cocks & Co. [1850s] • Forde 300 NM
*Forrester, George, The flute player's pocket companion part 1 (of 3), Edinburgh: J. Sutherland [c. 1817]
( NLS pdf, 1st item) • Flute player's pocket companion 1
Gale's pocket companion: see Smith, R. A.
Ganter, Joseph, composer, The Cossack's march, Philadelphia: George Willig, 1836 •Ganter Cossack's march
Gems from the Emerald Isle: see Hughes
Geminiani
, Francesco, New and compleat instructions for the violin, London: Longman & Broderip [c. 1790] • Geminiani
Gleadhill, T.S., ed., National dance album: violin edition, Glasgow: Mozart Allan [c. 1910?] •
Gleadhill
Glover, Charles William, composer, & W.H. Bellamy, author, The cavalier: song [London, c. 1850?] •
Glover
Cavalier
Glover, [Charles William] Cheer up my own Jeanette (Songs of a conscript, no 2), London: C. Jefferys, n.d. (JM 5941) •
Glover Cheer up
-, Jeannette et Jeannot (The conscript's departure), London: C. Jefferys, n.d. (JM 5940) • Glover Jeannette et Jeannot
Glover, J.W., ed., Irish melodies with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, and characteristic words by Thomas Moore, new edition, Dublin: James Duffy [1859?] • Glover-Moore
Glover, Steven, The retreat from St Jean D'Acre, London: Jefferys & Nelson [c. 1840] •
Glover
Retreat)
gnp (O'D MS): NLI MS 3781 (previously owned by John O'Daly): see Manuscript sources
[Goodman, James, ed.] Duanaire diadha, Dublin: Irish Society for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish, 1854 • Goodman 1854
Gore, Charles, et al., eds, Highland collections, Inverness: Highland Music Trust, 2005 • Gore
Highland collections
Gormley, P.W., The Artillery quadrilles, composed for the pianoforte and dedicated to the officers of the garrison, Dublin: McCullagh & McCullagh, n.d. (JM 4902) • Gormley Artillery quadrilles
*Gow, John, ed., A favourite collection of slow airs, strathspeys and reels, London: John Gow &c., n.d. , NLS pdf • Gow Favorite coll
Gow, Nathaniel, ed., The favourite dances of 1812, Edinburgh: Gow & Shepherd, n.d. (JM 5571, 5572) • Nath Gow 1812
*Gow, Niel, ed., A collection of strathspey reels with a bass for the violoncello or harpsichord, Edinburgh: Corri & Co. [1797?]
(first published 1784) Gallica pdf • Gow Coll 1
-, ed., A second collection -, 3rd edition, enlarged (first published 1788), Edinburgh: Robert Purdie [1828?] • Gow Coll 2
-, ed., A third collection -, Edinburgh: printed for the author [1792] • Gow Coll 3
-, ed., A sixth collection -, Edinburgh: Nathaniel Gow & Son [1822?] • Gow Coll 6
-, ed., Part first of the complete repository of original Scots slow strathspeys and dances, Edinburgh: Gow & Shepherd [1799?] (first of four volumes) • Gow Repos 1
-, ed., Part second -, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Gow & Shepherd [c. 1810?] •
Gow Repos 2
-, et al., eds, Part fourth -, Edinburgh: Nathl Gow; London: John Gow [1817?] • Gow Repos 4
-, ed., The beauties of Niel Gow, 3 parts, Edinburgh: Gow & Galbraith [1826] (a later issue of the original [c. 1820] edition). Reprinted Louth, Lincolnshire: Celtic Music, 1983 • Gow BNG
*Graham, George Farquhar, ed., The songs of Scotland adapted to their appropriate melodies, 3 vols, Edinburgh etc.: Wood & Co. etc., 1848-49.
(NLS pdfs vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3) •
Graham 1, 2, 3
*Grieg, John, ed., Scots Minstrelsie: a national monument of Scottish song, in six volumes, Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack,
Grange Publishing Works [c. 1893] Electric Scotland digital images • Grieg Minstrelsie
*Hall, John, ed., A selection of strathspeys, reels, waltzes & Irish jigs, Ayr: John Hall [c. 1818] NLS pdf • Hall Selection
Hamilton British Minstrel: see
British Minstrel
Hamilton HUT: see Manson
Hamilton SSS: see Select songs of Scotland
*Hanby, B. R., composer, Darling Nelly Gray, [Boston]: Oliver Ditson, 1856 JHU jpeg • Hanby
Harding, Frank, ed., Harding's collection of 200 jigs and reels for violin or pianoforte, New York: F.A. Mills, 1891 • Harding's 200
*Harding's all-round collection of jigs, reels and country dances for piano violin flute or mandolin, New York: Harding's music house [1905]
IMSLP pdf • Harding's all-round
Harrison MS: see VMP
Hart, Charles, Hart's Rory O More quadrilles, arranged from Mr Lover's favorite songs, London: J. Duff, n.d. (JM 4909) • Hart
Haverty 100, 300: See
One hundred Irish airs, Three hundred Irish airs
Hegarty: see also Ó hÉigeartaigh, Uí Éigeartaigh
*Hegarty, Catherine, 'A thematic index and analytic investigation of the Joyce MSS, National Library, Dublin, nos 2982-3',
unpublished MA thesis of the National University of Ireland, Dublin, 1966 ITMA description & pdf • Hegarty 1966
[Henderson, John, ed.] The flowers of Irish melody, 1st series, Belfast: John Henderson, 1847 • Henderson Flowers
Herz, H., The Duke of Reichstadt's waltz . . . to which is added the popular Venetian barcarolle or Italian air, London: D'Almaine & Co. [c. 1840] • Herz
Hibernia : see Robertson
*Hibernian muse, The, London: S. A. & P. Thompson [1790] IMSLP pdf •
Hibernian muse
[Hime, Morris/Maurice, ed.] Hime's second collection of favorite country dances for the present year, Dublin: Hime, 1796 (JM 5293] • Hime 1796
-, Hime's pocket book for the German flute or violin, vols 1-6, Dublin: Hime [c. 1800] (JM 5474) • Hime's pocket book
-, Hime's collection of country dances for the year 1802, Dublin: Hime [1801] • Hime 1802
* -, Forty eight original Irish dances never before printed, books 1 & 2, Dublin: Hime [c. 1805] (JM 5319]. (ITMA
interactive scores with pdfs;
Gallica pdf) •
Hime 1805
-, Hime's second collection of favourite country dances for 1808, Dublin: Hime [1808]) (JM 5299, 5300) • Hime 1808
-, Hime's collection of favourite country dances for 1809. No 1, Dublin: Hime [1809] (JM 5302), No 2 (JM 5303), No 3, (JM 5304) •
Hime 1809
-, Hime's collection of country dances for 1810. No 6, Dublin: Hime [1810] (JM no 5307) • Hime 1810
-, Hime's collection of favourite country dances for1811. No 7, Dublin: Hime [1811] (JM 5308) • Hime 1811:
-, Hime's collection of favourite country dances for 1814. No 11, Dublin: Hime [1814] (JM 5313) •Hime 1814
-, Hime's new collection of country dances. No 13, Dublin: Maurice Hime [c. 1815] (JM 5315) •
Hime 1815
Hime Roy's wife: see Roy
's wife of Alldivalloch
Hodson, G[eorge] A., Alice Gray, a ballad, sung by Miss Ashe at the Rotunda, Dublin: G. A. Hodson [c. 1830?] (JM 845) •Hodson Alice Gray
-, The Highland quadrilles, as danced at Mr. Montague's Academy, Dublin: E. McCullagh [c. 1840?] (JM 5580) •
Hodson
Highland Quadrilles
Holden, Smollet, ed., A selection of Masonic songs, Dublin: S. Holden [1795?] (NLI Ir 780941 h 6) • Holden Masonic
-, ed., Holden's collection of the most esteem'd old Irish melodies with new words arranged as songs duets or glees, etc, Dublin: S. Holden [1806-12?], 2 vols with 30 numbered airs in each (JM 4657) •
Holden OIM,
-, ed., A collection of old established Irish slow and quick tunes,
book 1, Dublin: S. Holden [c. 1805] (JM 4657A, bound with book 2
) •
Holden ISQT 1
-, ed., book 2, Dublin: S. Holden [c. 1805] (JM 4657A, bound with book 1) •Holden ISQT 2
The same tunes are reprinted in S. Holden, A collection of favorite Irish airs, book 1, London: George Ward [1818] (JM 2709)
Holst, M., ed., Holst's new collection of popular dances, London: Holst [c.1815] • Holst
Horncastle, Frederick William, The music of Ireland as performed in Mr. Horncastle's Irish entertainments, parts I-III, London: Horncastle, 1844 (JM 4659) •
Horncastle
* Howe, Elias, ed., Musician's companion, first [-third] parts of, Boston: Oliver Ditson [1842?] (part 1); 1843 (part 2); 1844 (part 3)
all repr. [1850. IMSLP pdf • Howe Musician's companion
-, ed., Howe's 1,000 jigs and reels, Boston: Elias Howe [1860s] (reprinted as Patrick Sky, ed., Mel Bay presents Howe's 1,000 jigs and reels, Pacific, Missouri: Mel Bay Publications, 2001) •
Howe's 1,000
-, ed., Musician's omnibus 1-4, Boston: E. Howe [1870]. IMSLP pdf
• Howe Omnibus
-, ed., Musician's omnibus complete, Boston: E. Howe, 1864 • Howe Omnibus complete,
-, ed., Howe's new violin without a master, Boston: Elias Howe, 1870 • Howe NVWM
-, ed., 500 Irish melodies, ancient and modern, Boston: Elias Howe & Co. [c. 1873] •
Howe 500
Irish melodies
Howe NVWM: see Howe, Elias, Howe's new violin without a master
Howe Omnibus: see Howe, Elias, Musician's omnibus
[Hughes, P.H., ed.] Gems from the Emerald Isle: including a collection of ancient Irish jigs, country dances, &c., London: Metzler & Co. [18--]
• Hughes Gems,
Hull, Eusebius, The celebrated slow & quick marches, of the fourth or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards... by Eusebius Hull, master of the band, 2nd edition, London: Willis & Co., n.d. (JM 4131) • Hull
Hyde: see De hÍde
Iris na hOidhreachta 2: An Canónach Séamas Goodman, Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, ed., Baile an Fhirtéaraigh [Ballyferriter, Co Kerry]: Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, 1990 • Iris 2
Irish
folk music studies / Éigse cheol tíre, Dublin: Folk Music Society of Ireland, 1973- • IFMS
Jackson, Richard, ed., Stephen Foster song book: original sheet music of 40 original songs by Stephen Collins Foster, NY: Dover Publications, 1974 •
Stephen Foster song book
Jackson's celebrated Irish tunes, Dublin: Edmund Lee, 2 Dame Street, n.d., (JM 5411, watermark 1794), may be re-issue of an earlier publication by Sam Lee
[1774?] or John Lee [1780] •
Jackson
JCIT
Johnson, David, Scottish fiddle music in the 18th century, Edinburgh: John Donald, 1984 • Johnson Scottish fiddle music
*Johnson, James, ed., The Scots musical museum, 6 vols (pages and tunes numbered continuously), [Edinburgh]: Johnson & Co. [1787-1803].
(NLS pdfs vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4,
vol. 5,
vol. 6) •
SMM
Johnson, John, ed., A choice collection of 200 favourite country dances, [London]: Johnson [1740s] • J. Johnson Choice Collection
Joshua Gibbons: see Sumner
Joyce MS: see Manuscript Sources (National Library of Ireland)
*Joyce, P. W., ed., Ancient Irish music: comprising one hundred airs hitherto unpublished. . . the harmonies by Professor Glover, Dublin: McGlashan &
Gill; London: Marshall Simpkin; Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1873
ITMA pdf and
interactive scores with pdfs
•
Joyce
AIM
*-, ed., Old Irish folk music and songs: a collection of 842 Irish airs and songs hitherto unpublished, London etc.: Longmans, Green; Dublin:
Hodges, Figgis, 1909.
(ITMA pdf and interactive scores in four parts:
Part A, Part B, Part C, Part D
•
Joyce
OIFMS
Kerr's collection of merry melodies for the violin, 4 books, Glasgow: James S. Kerr [from 1875-] •
Kerr's Merry 1, 2, 3, 4
Kerr's Caledonian collection, Glasgow: James S. Kerr [19--] • Kerr's Caledonian
Kerr's collection of reels and strathspeys, Glasgow: James S. Kerr [c. 1915?] • Kerr's collection
Kerr's new violin tutor, Glasgow: James S. Kerr [pre 1896] • Kerr's new violin tutor
Kerr's violin instructor and Irish folk-song album, Glasgow: James S. Kerr, n.d. • Kerr's violin instructor
Kidson, Frank, ed., Old English country dances, London: William Reeves, 1890 • Kidson
*Köhler's violin repository of dance music, books 1-3 (paged continuously), Edinburgh etc.:
Ernest Köhler & Son etc. [c.1885].
NLS pdfs
• Koehler 1, 2, 3
Lee, Alexander, Away away to the mountains brow: a cavatina, as sung with unbounded applause, by Mrs. Waylett, London: Alexander Lee & Lee [1832?] •
Alex Lee
Away away
Lee Duke of York's: see Duke
[Lee Edmund, ed.] E. Lee's collection of country dances for the present year 1801, Dublin: E. Lee [1801] (JM 5329) • Lee 1801
-, E. Lee's collection of favorite country dances for 1808, Dublin: E. Lee, 1808 •
Lee 1808
-, Croppies lie down. A favourite new song (single sheet of words & music, beginning 'We soldiers of Erin so proud of the name'), Dublin: Edmund Lee, n.d. (JM 2501) • Lee Croppies
[Lee, John, ed.] A favourite collection of the so much admired old Irish tunes, the original and genuine compositions of Carolan the celebrated Irish bard: set for the harpsichord, violin and German-flute, Dublin: John Lee [1778] • Lee Carolan
Levey, Richard Michael, ed., A collection of the dance music of Ireland, consisting of upwards of one hundred national jigs, reels, hornpipes, &c.,
London: Charles Jeffries [1858] •
Levey 1
Light, Edward, ed., A select collection of Scottish & Irish airs for the voice, vol. 2, nos 4 & 5, London: The editor [c. 1790?] •
Light
Lindpainter, P. J. von, The warrior bard, or, the standard bearer, Boston: G.P. Reed, 1847 •
Lindpainter
Lochiel's march (sheet music), n.p.d. (JM 4229) • Lochiel
Lover, Samuel, Come back to me, sung by Madame Balfe, London: J. Duff, n.d. (JM 1198) •
Lover
Come back to me
-, The fairy boy, sung by Mr. Wilson. No 11 of the songs of the superstitions of Ireland, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1325)
-, The four-leafed shamrock, sung by Miss Romer. No 8 of the songs of the superstitions of Ireland, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1333) • Lover Four-leafed Shamrock
-, The land of the West, ballad, sung by Miss Agnes Taylor, in the favorite entertainment of Rory O More, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1345) • Lover Land of the West
-, The low-backed car, sung by the author in his Irish evenings, London: Duff [c. 1834] (JM 1349) •
Lover
Low-backed car
-, Molly Bawn, Irish ballad, sung by Mr. Balfe, in the comic operetta of Paddy Whack in Italia, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1250) • Lover Molly
-, My mother dear: ballad, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1255) •
Lover
My mother dear
-, Ned of the hill - sung by Miss Rainforth, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1259) • Lover Ned of the hill
-, Rory O'More or good omens - sung by Madame Vestris, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1286) • Lover
Rory O'More
-, Songs and ballads (words only) New York etc.: D. & J. Sadleir, 1853, 3rd edition [1st ed. 1839] • Lover
1853
-, Sweet Jessie, sung by Miss Cubitt, London: Duff, n.d. (JM 1302) • Lover Sweet Jessie
-, When and where: ballad... written & adapted to the popular organ tune, London: J. Duff, n.d. (JM 3536) • Lover When and where
Lynch, John P., ed., The melodies of Ireland, Dublin: S.J. Pigott [c. 1845?] (JM 4664) •Lynch
McCullagh: see Collection of Irish airs
*McGibbon, William, ed., A collection of Scots tunes, for the violin or German flute... with some additions by R. Bremner, London: R. Bremner [1768?]
(4 books in one volume paged continuously).
IMSLP pdf • McGibbon
Maguire, Cyril, & Sharon Creasey, eds, Hidden Fermanagh: traditional music and song from County Fermanagh, Drumbeggan, Monea, Co Fermanagh: Fermanagh Traditional Music Society, 2003 •
Maguire
Hidden Fermanagh
*Manson, James, ed., Hamilton's universal tunebook, vol 1: Glasgow etc.: W. Hamilton etc.; Dublin: S.J. Machen; Belfast: W. Pollock, 1844.
ITMA pdf
• Hamilton HUT 1
*-, ed., vol. 2: Glasgow etc.: W. Hamilton etc.; Dublin: T. Lemessurier; Belfast: W. Pollock, 1846. A later 1883 edition combines both volumes.
ITMA pdf
•
Hamilton HUT 2
Mel Bay presents Howe's 1,000 jigs and reels: see Howe
Mitchell, Pat, ed., The dance music of Willy Clancy, Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press, published for Na Píobairí Uilleann, 1976 • Mitchell DMWC
Mitchell, Pat, & Jackie Small, eds, The piping of Patsy Touhey, Dublin: Na Píobairí Uilleann, 1986 •
Mitchell & Small
PPT
*Mitchell, Pat, & Jackie Small, 'Martin Reilly', An Píobaire , vol 2 no 6 (March 1980) p 3 •
Mitchell & Small 1980
*Mitchell, Pat, 'The O'Connor Don reel', An Píobaire , Vol 6 no 10 (July 2010) 18–23 < • Mitchell 2010
*Mitchison, William, Handbook of the songs of Scotland with music, London & Glasgow: Richard Griffin [c. 1852].
NLS pdf • Mitchison
Mittell MS: see VMP
Moloney, Colette, ed., The Boss Murphy musical legacy: Irish music from the Churchtown area of North Cork, Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork: Churchtown Village Renewal Trust, 2003 • Boss Murphy
Mooney, Thomas, History of Ireland, 2 vols (paged continuously), Boston: the author, 1846 (music all in vol. 1, musical index at end of vol. 2) • Mooney
Moore, John, manuscripts of: see
Ashman
Moore, Thomas: see also Glover
Moore, Thomas, A selection of Irish melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson, 10 numbers & a supplement, Dublin: W. Power; London: J. Power, 1807-34 • Moore no 1, no 2, etc.
-, National airs, and other songs, now first collected, London: Longman, Brown, etc., 1858 • Moore National airs
-, If thou wouldst have me sing and play, a ballad by Thomas Moore, London: Cramer, Addison & Beale, n.d. (JM 2852)
•Moore
If thou wouldst
[-] Nothing in life can sadden us, the words composed by T[homas] M[oore], Dublin: Rhames, n.d. (JM 3130)
•Moore Nothing in life
Moylan, Terry, ed., Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra: dance music from the Cork-Kerry border, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1994
(an expanded 2nd edition was published in 2014) •
Moylan
JOL
MS 7348: NLI MS 7348 (previously owned by John O'Daly):see Manuscript sources.
Mulhollan, John Macpherson, ed., A selection of Irish and Scots tunes, Edinburgh: printed for the editor, by John Hamilton [1804]
• Mulhollan SIST
Mulholland, John, ed., A collection of ancient Irish airs, 2 vols, Belfast: Simms & McIntyre [1810?] (vol. 1); 1810 (vol. 2)
) •Mulholland AIA 1, 2
Murphy, John, ed., A collection of Irish airs and jiggs with variations, Edinborough [sic]: Gow and Shepherd [c. 1810] (JM 4669;
•
Murphy
CIAJ
Murphy, Willm, Jr, The original German polka, Dublin: M'Cullagh & M'Cullagh, n.d. (NLI Add Mus 4344, JM 3924, JM 4958) •
Murphy German polka
Nath Gow: see Gow, Nathaniel
Neal CIT; Neal, John & William: see Carolan, Nicholas
Nelson, S., & Charles Jeffries, The rose of Allandale: ballad, sung by Mr. Wilson, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, London: Leoni Lee [18--?] •Nelson & Jeffries
Newland, J., arranger, "One day while workin' at my plough": a comic duett, Philadelphia: George Willig [1839] • Newland One day
Ó Beoláin, Art, 'Rev. Canon James Goodman, Séamas Goodman, a shaol agus a shaothar', Iris 2: 45-69 • Ó Beoláin 1990
Ó Cuív, Brian, ed., 'Deascán ó Chúige Mumhan, 3 Dán ó Shéamus Goodman', Béaloideas 22 (1955) 112-14 • Ó Cuív 1955
O'D MS (gnp): NLI MS 3781 (previously owned by John O'Daly): see Manuscript sources.
O'Daly, John, ed., The poets and poetry of Munster: a selection of Irish songs by the poets of the last century, 2nd ed., Dublin: John O'Daly, 1850 •
O'D 1850
-, ed., Reliques of Irish Jacobite poetry, 2nd edition, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1866 • O'D Reliques
[-, ed.] Irish language miscellany: being a selection of poems by the Munster bards of the last century, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1876 •
O'D
Miscellany
O'Farrell, [P.], ed., O Farrell's collection of national Irish music for the union pipes, London: [John] Gow [1804].
•
OFNIM
*-, ed., O Farrells pocket companion for the Irish or union pipes, [vol. 1], n.p.d. (imprint erased) [1805?].
NLS pdf •
OFPC 1
*-, ed., -, vol. 2, London: Goulding & Company [1806?] NLS pdf •
OFPC 2
*-, ed., -, vol. 3, London: Goulding, d'Almaine, Potter & Co. [1811-16]
•
OFPC 3
*-, ed., -, vol. 4, no title page or imprint [London: Goulding? 1811-16?]
•
OFPC 4
Ó Fiannachta, Pádruig, 'Díonbhrollach lámhscríbhinne le Séamas Goodman', Éigse 15 (1974) 222-23 • Ó Fiannachta 1974
Ó Fiannachta, Pádruig: see also Iris 2
O'Flanagan, Patrick, ed., The Hibernia collection, Boston: Elias Howe, 1860
•
O'Flanagan
HC
OFNIM, OFPC: see O'Farrell
Ó Glaisne, Risteard, 'Ollamh is ceoltóir', Galvia 10 (1964-65) 33-40 • Ó Glaisne 1965
O'Hara, Charles P.F., ed., The gentleman's musical repository, New York: printed for the author, 1813
• O'Hara GMR
Ó hÉigeartaigh, Dáiví [Dave Hegarty] 'Smaointe ar an gceoltóir James Goodman agus ar a Chúlra Ceoil', Iris 2 (1990) 121-25 • Ó hÉigeartaigh 1990
O'Neill, Francis, ed., O'Neill's music of Ireland: eighteen hundred and fifty melodies, Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1903 • ONMI
-, ed., The dance music of Ireland: 1001 gems, Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1907 •
ONDMI
-, Irish folk music: a fascinating hobby, Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1910 •
ONIFM
-, Irish minstrels and musicians, Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1913 • O'Neill IMM
-, ed., The waifs and strays of Gaelic melody, Chicago: Lyon & Healy, etc., 1922 • ONWSGM
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádruig ('An Seabhac'), 'An tOllamh Séamas Goodman agus a mhuinntire', Béaloideas 13 (1943) 286-91; 23 (1954) 237-39 • An Seabhac 1943, 1954
O'Sullivan D[onal] J[oseph], 'Bacach buidhe na léige (The yellow beggar of the League), Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society 19 (1922) 33-40 • DOS 1922
O'Sullivan, Donal, Irish folk music and song, Dublin: Sign of the Three Candles, 1952 • DOS 1952
-, Carolan: the life, times, and music of an Irish harper, 2 vols, London: Routledge & Paul [1958]
• DOS
*One hundred and fifty Scotch songs, music and words, for a shilling
(series: Davidson's musical miracles), London: Davidson [c. 1860]
IMSLP pdf •
Davidson
150 Scotch songs
One hundred Irish airs, 3rd series, New York: P.M. Haverty, 1859 • Haverty 100
Orph Caled: see Thomson, W.
*Oswald [James], ed., The Caledonian pocket companion: containing fifty of the most favourite Scotch tunes, books 1-6, London: J. Simpson [1743-48]
NLS Books 1–6 (the original) and a later publication:
NLS Books 1–8 More informationabout Oswald •
Oswald CPC 1, 2
*Petrie, George, ed., The ancient music of Ireland, Vol. 1, Dublin: M. H. Gill, for the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of
Ireland, 1855. ITMA pdf
• Petrie AMI 1
*Petrie, George, ed., The ancient music of Ireland, Vol. 2, Dublin: M. H. Gill, for the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of
Ireland, 1882. ITMA pdf
• Petrie AMI 2
*-, & C.V. Stanford, eds, The complete collection of Irish music, 3 vols, London & New York: Boosey & Co., 1902-05.
IMSLP pdfs • P-S
Petrie, Robert, ed., A second collection of strathspey reels & country dances, Edinburgh: printed for the author [c. 1800] •
Robert Petrie 2
-, ed., A third collection of strathspey reels [London?]: printed for the author [c. 1802] •
Robert Petrie 3
Pipes: see Manuscript sources, TCD MS 11320
*Píobaire, An: monthly publication of Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin
Poets and poetry of Munster, The, 1st series: see O'Daly
Poets and poetry of Munster, The, 2nd series: see Erionnach [George Sigerson]
POK: see Manuscript Sources(Irish Traditional Music Archive)
PPM 2: see Erionnach [George Sigerson]
Riley, Edward, ed., Riley's flute melodies, New York: engraved, printed and sold by the editor, 1814 • Riley 1
-, ed., -, Second volume, New York: E. Riley [c. 1820?] • Riley 2
(These two reprinted as Edward Riley's flute melodies, New York: Da Capo Press, 1973)
Robert Petrie 2, 3: See Petrie, Robert
Robertson, A., arranger, Hibernia: a favorite Irish air as performed by the band of the Antrim Militia, Edinburgh: Penson Robertson & Co., n.d. (JM 4747) • Robertson Hibernia
*Roche, F[rank], Collection of Irish airs, marches and dance tunes, 3 vols (tunes of vols 1-2 numbered continuously). Dublin & Cork: Pigott,
new revised edition [1927]. First published [1912]. Reprinted in a single volume, The Roche collection of traditional Irish music, Cork: Ossian, 1982.
(ITMA interactive scores with pdfs (from 1927 reprint): vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3
Rowsome, Helena, ed, The Leo Rowsome collection of Irish music , Dublin: Waltons Publishing, 2002
Roy's wife of Alldivalloch, Dublin: Hime at his circulating library no 34 College Green, n.d. [1792-1814] (NLI Add Mus 5981) •
Hime
Roy's wife
Russell, Henry, composer and performer, Dance, boatman, dance: Virginian melody, [London?, c. 1860?] (NLI Add Mus 6832) • Russell Dance boatman
*Ryan's mammoth collection, Boston: Elias Howe, 1883.
ITMA interactive scores with pdfs: Part A,
Part B,
Part C,
Part D,
Part E
•
Ryan
Saust, Charles, A selection of original Irish airs set for the flute, [London]: R. Cocks & Co. [c. 1830?] (copy bound at the end of NLI MS 7348)
Seabhac, An: see Ó Siochfhradha, Pádruig
Second series or Eleven Ethiopian songs, as sung by the Serenaders, viz. Lilly Baker, Charmin' Isabel, Who dat knockin' at de door, Come darkies, sing, Chloe's to be my wife, I wish I war at old Warginny, De dandy Broadway swell, My old Aunt Sally, My skiff is on de shore, Uncle Gabriel, and Coal black rose, London: J. Derisley, n.d. (JM 3701) • Ethiopian songs 2nd series
*Select collection of Scotch, English, Irish and foreign airs, jiggs & marches, A, 3 vols (paged continuously), Edinburgh: N. Stewart [c. 1788].
NLS vol. 1 pdf • Stewart Airs
Select songs of Scotland, with the melodies to which they are sung, The, Glasgow: W. Hamilton, 1848 (JM 5782) • Hamilton SSS
Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and foreign airs, A: see
Aird
Selection of the most popular Ethiopian songs, A, no 108. Lucy Neal and Dandy Jim from Caroline, London: B. Williams, n.d. (JM 3680) • Ethiopean songs 108
*Shaw, Oliver, ed., For the gentlemen: a favourite selection of instrumental music, Dedham [Massachusetts]: H. Mann, 1807
IMSLP pdf • Shaw For the gentlemen
Shields, Hugh, Narrrative singing in Ireland, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993 • Shields 1993
*Shields, Hugh, ed., Tunes of the Munster pipers: Irish traditional music from the James Goodman manuscripts [vol 1],
Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 1998.
ITMA interactive scores with pdfs:
Part A,
Part B, • TMP 1
*Shields, Hugh & Lisa, eds., Tunes of the Munster pipers: Irish traditional music from the James Goodman manuscripts, vol. 2,
Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2013. ITMA interactive scores with pdfs:
Part A,
Part B • TMP 2
Sídh-cheól 1, 2: See Breathnach, Fr Pádruig (Breathnach, Fr Pádruig
Sigerson, George: see Erionnach
Skillern 1796: see Twenty four new country dances
Slattery, Alison, 'Recording music in the nineteenth century: the contribution of George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948)', in Ancestral imprints, Thérèse Smith, ed., Cork: Cork University Press, 2011: 34-43
• Slattery 2011
Small, Jackie, ed., & Breandán Breathnach, collector, Ceol rince na hÉireann IV, V, Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: An Gúm, 1996, 1999 •
CRÉ 4, 5
Smith, R. A., ed., Gale's pocket companion for the German flute or violin, Glasgow: Joseph Taylor [c. 1815?] •
Gale's pocket companion
-, ed., The Irish minstrel: a selection from the vocal melodies of Ireland, ancient and modern, Edinburgh: Robt. Purdie [1825] • Smith IM
SMM (Scots musical museum): see Johnson, James
Songs of Robert Burns, with music, The, centenary edition, Glasgow: David Jack, 1859 (JM 5808) •
Songs of Burns
SRSJ : see Electronic Resources (Sean Reid Society Journal)
Stanford, C.V.: see Petrie
Steibelt, Daniel, Steibelt's celebrated storm concerto for the piano forte, Dublin: J.B. Logier, n.d. •
Steibelt
Stephano, Ch., arranger, One hundred reels, strathspeys, etc. (Wickins Grosvenor music books no 114), London: Wickins & Co. [c. 1910?] •
Stephano
Stephen Foster song book: see Jackson
Stevenson, Sir John: see Moore; Glover
Stewart Airs: see Select collection of Scotch, English, Irish and foreign airs, jiggs & marches
Stokes, William, The life and labours in art and archaeology of George Petrie..., London: Longmans, Greene, & Co., 1868 • Stokes 1868
Storace, Stephen, Lullaby, Baltimore: John Cole [1824] •Storace
Sumner. Peter D., ed., The Joshua Gibbons manuscript: tunes from a variety of sources, collected in Tealby, Lincolnshire between 1823 and 1826 by Joshua Gibbons 1778-1871, a papermaker, Grimsby: Breakfast, 1997 • Joshua Gibbons
*Surenne, J.T., ed., The songs of Ireland without words, Edinburgh etc.: Wood & Co. etc., 1854.
Internet archive pdf •
Surenne
SI
*-, ed., The dance music of Scotland, 6th edition, Edinburgh: Wood & Co. [185-?].
Internet archive pdf •DMS
Thompson, S. A. & P.: see
Hibernian muse
Thompson, Mrs D.P., A brief account of the rise and progress of the change in religious opinion now taking place in Dingle and the West of the Co. of Kerry, Ireland, London: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1846 • Thompson 1846
*Thompson, W., Orpheus Caledonius: or, a collection of Scots songs, set to music, 2 vols, 2nd edition, London: printed for the author, 1733 (1st edition, 1725, was single volume) NLS pdfs •
Orph Caled
Thompson's compleat collection of 200 favourite country dances, vol. 3 [of 5], London: Saml, Ann & Peter Thompson [c. 1790]
•
Thompson's compleat
Thomson, George, Thomson's collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott Bart. and other eminent lyric poets ancient and modern united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales, six vols, with dated preface to each part, London: Preston; Edinburgh: G. Thomson [1822-25] (JM 5783) • Thomson 5, 6
Three hundred Irish airs, New York: Haverty, 1858 • Haverty 300
TMP: see Shields
Torna MS 59: see Manuscript sources, University College Cork
Tracy's collection of favorite country dances for the present year, Dublin: Hime [c.1795] (JM 5374, watermark 1795) • Tracy CDs 1795
Trim, Roger, et al., eds, The musical heritage of Thomas Hardy, vol. 1, [Blyth, Northumberland]: Dragonfly Music, 1990 • Trim Hardy
Tubridy, Michael, & Meabh Ní Lochlainn, eds, Irish traditional music, Dublin: Craobh Naithí, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, 1995 •
Tubridy 1
-, eds, Irish traditional music, book 2, Dublin: Craobh Naithí, CCÉ, 1998 •
Tubridy 2
Tunes: see Manuscript sources, TCD MS 11321
*Turnbull, John & Patrick Buchan, eds, The garland of Scotia, Glasgow etc.: Wm Mitchison etc., 1841.
NLS pdf • Turnbull
Twenty four new country dances for the year 1796, London: T. Skillern [1796] • Skillern 1796
Ua Duinnín, Pádruig, ed., Dánta Phiarais Feiritéir, BÁC [Dublin]: Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1934 •
Dánta PF
UCC: see Manuscript sources, UCC MS 196
Uí Éigeartaigh: see also Hegarty
*Uí Éigeartaigh, Caitlín, 'Patrick Weston Joyce: the collector as editor', IFMS 2 (1974–75) 5–14.See also Hegarty, Catherine.
Urquahart, Alexander, et al., eds, Aria di camera: being a choice collection of Scotch, Irish & Welsh air's [sic] for the violin and German flute,
London: Dan. Wright & Dan. Wright Junr [c. 1726]. IMSLP pdf • Aria
VMP (The Village Music Project): see Electronic resources (Adams & Partington
VMP (Village Music Project): List of manuscripts
VMP MS (BF13): Browne family MS 13, Lake District c. 1825
VMP Carlisle MS (Car): Anon, Carlisle, c. 1812
VMP Clarke MS (WCl): William Clarke MS, Lincoln, 1770
VMP Clare MS (JC): John Clare (1793-1864), poet, Helpston
VMP Harrison MS (RH): Revd R. Harrison's MS, Cumbria, c. 1815
VMP Mittell MS (WM): Wm Mittell, New Romney, Kent, 1799
VMP Watson MS (GHW): George Watson : Norfolk Swanton Abbott (1850-80). Private collection,
VMP Winder MS (JaW): James Winder, Lancashire, 1835-41
Walker, Joseph C., Historical memoirs of the Irish bards, 2nd ed., Dublin: J. Christie, 1818
•Walker 2
Walker's Hibernian magazine, or Compendium of entertaining knowledge, [Dublin]: Thomas Walker, 1785-1811 • Walker's Hib Mag
*Waylett, Mrs, composer and performer, Pretty star of the night, Sydney: F. Ellard [184-?].
NLA pdf • Waylett Pretty star
Weippert, G., ed., National country dances as danced at Her Majesty's balls. Sets 1-3, London: Lawson [c. 1840?] (JM 5381-83) • Weippert NCDs 1, 2, 3
*Westrop, T., ed., T. Westrop's 120 country dances, jigs, reels, hornpipes. . . for the violin, n.p.d. [London? first published 1860s, reprinted into the 1920s].
IMSLP pdf •
Westrop
Wheatstone's occasional repertory of dances. No 20, pages 59-61, London: C[harles] Wheatstone [c. 1809] (JM 6053) •
Wheatstone
Whitaker, John, composer, & T. Dibdin, author, Darby Kelly, London: Whitaker & Co., n.d. (JM 2178) • Whitaker & Dibdin
Willis, Isaac, Willis’s Select collection of country dances, waltzes, quadrille &C: Dublin, [c. 1830]
Winder MS: see
VMP
Words: see Manuscript sources, TCD MS 11320
Yedis, I., The fashions of the day! or a Yorkshireman's ideas upon modern dress and manners, Dublin: J.Sidebottom, n.d. (JM 2203) • Yedis Fashions
-, The humours of Donnybrook fair, an original comic song, Dublin: T. Cooke, n.d. (JM 2204) • Yedis
Donnybrook
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[Alexander, J., ed.], Alexander's fifty new Irish and Scotch reels and hornpipes, London [c 1825]
Bowen, Robin Huw, ed., Tro Llaw : 200 o bibddawnsiau Cymreig o Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru , [A collection of 200 Welsh hornpipes from the National Library of Wales], NLW, 1987
Gow, John, ed., A favourite collection of slow airs, strathspeys and reels, London, [ c. 1802-1805]
John Hall, ed., A selection of strathspeys, reels, waltzes & Irish jigs, Ayr: John Hall [c. 1818]
Hegarty, Catherine, 'A thematic index and analytic investigation of the Joyce MSS, National Library, Dublin, nos 2982-3', unpublished thesis of the National University of Ireland, Dublin
Howe, Elias, ed., Musician's omnibus 1-4, Boston: E. Howe [1870]
Kerr, James S. , Kerr's Violin Instructor and Irish Folk-Song Album, Glasgow, n.d.
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Rowsome, Helena, ed, The Leo Rowsome collection of Irish music, Dublin: Waltons Publishing, 2002
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