Dublin Dance: A Song History

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"Dublin Dance" is one of fourteen tunes in DulciWhistle, a 33-page book of duets for mountain dulcimer and pennywhistle, also called tin whistle, by John Keane and Karen Keane, published by Fingers Of Steel.[1] The listing calls every tune in the book an original by the pair and describes the arrangements as not especially hard, though it does not say which of them wrote this one.[1] Alongside the complete book, the download supplies individual PDFs of the songs and a folder of MP3 recordings.[1] From Shreveport, Louisiana, the Keanes are performers and music educators with degrees in music education, and they compose for the mountain dulcimer and Native American flute.[2][3] The sources consulted here give no account of when the tune was written or how it got its name.[1][2][3]

Dark wooden flageolet with pale ivory rings and a row of finger holes, lying on a slant

Frederick Riley, Flageolet, boxwood, ivory, brass, 1844–50. Shown for its subject; it has no connection to the tune.

Our book that contains the song "Dublin Dance"

Sources

  1. Fingers Of Steel: "John Keane And Karen Keane, DulciWhistle".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "John Keane".
  3. DulcimerDownloads: "Karen Keane".
  4. Image: Frederick Riley, Flageolet, boxwood, ivory, brass, 1844–50. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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