Old Irish Tune

Larry Daehn

Larry Daehn

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

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

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