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Old Irish Tune
Contents
General Info
Year: 2001
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Folksong
Publisher: Daehn
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani (optional)
Percussion, including:
- Bells
- Marimba (ad lib.)
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This concert band setting is based on Kitty Tyrrell, an old Irish air of the mid-eighteenth century. Thomas Moore (1779-1852) used the melody for his Oh! Blame Not the Bard! (in Volume 3 of his Irish Melodies series) in 1810.
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Florida: II
- Georgia: II
- Maryland: II
- Michigan: Senior High d
- Mississippi: II-A
- North Carolina: II
- South Carolina: II
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Sierra Pacific High School (Hanford, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Jeff Detlefsen, conductor) -15 March 2019 (2019 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- A Song for Friends (Flex instrumentation) (1997/2020)
All Wind Works
- Adagio for Winds (2004)
- Aria (as arranger)
- As Summer Was Just Beginning (1994)
- British Isles Suite (1999)
- Chaconne (2011)
- Chaconne and Festive Aria (as arranger)
- Chaconne in D Minor (as arranger)
- Chorale and Fugue in F Major (as arranger)
- Christmas Day (as arranger)
- Country Wildflowers (1998)
- Highland Echoes (1995)
- Farewell, Dear Voyager
- Fugue in B-flat Major (as arranger) (1722/1988)
- I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (as transcriber) (1905-12/1987)
- Old Irish Tune (2002)
- Passacaglia from "Cantata No. 12" (as arranger)
- Remembrance (2014)
- Romany Life (as arranger)
- Song for Friends, A (1997)
- A Song for Friends (Flex instrumentation) (1997/2020)
- Symphony No. 6: Third Movement Finale (as arranger) (1893/2007)
- Tchaikovskyana (as arranger) (1979/2015)
- Themes from "Green Bushes" (as arranger) (1906/1987)
- Walking Tune (as arranger) (1900/1940/1988)
- West Point Bicentennial March (2002)
- Where Eagles Dare (as arranger) (1968/2011)
- While I Watch the Yellow Wheat (2002)
- With Quiet Courage (1995)
Resources
- Daehn, L. (2001). Old Irish Tune [score]. Daehn Publications: New Glarus, Wisc.
- Perusal score