Bolton Street

Find traditional instrumental music
Revision as of 23:43, 14 May 2017 by Alan Snyder (talk | contribs) (Add link, AKA, citation)


Bolton Street  Click on the tune title to see or modify Bolton Street's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Special:Browse/:Bolton Street
Query the Archive
Query the Archive
 Theme code Index    5524 1551H
 Also known as    Sráid Bolton
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    E
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Dorian
 Time signature    4/4
 History    IRELAND(Connaught)
 Structure    AAB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Brendan Breathnach & Jackie Small
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 4
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 201, p. 92
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1996
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


BOLTON STREET (Sráid Bolton). AKA – "Humors of Bolton Street (The)." Irish, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning. AAB. There is a Bolton Street in the city of Dublin, named in 1724 after Lord Lieutenant Charles Powlett, the Earl of Bolton.

Source for notated version: the c. 1880's collection of fiddler and uileann piper Stephen Grier (County Leitrim) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ 4), 1996; No. 201, p. 92. Vallely (Companion to Irish Traditional Music), 1999; p. 66.

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]


X: 1
T: Bolton Street
T: Sr\'aid Bolton
S: B.Breathnach:"Ceol Rince na hEireann" IV/201
Z: B.Black
L: 1/8
M: 4/4
R: reel
K: D
B2 BA FAAF|EBBA Beef|dBAF DEFA|BdAF FE E2 :|
Eeef defd|BABc defe|dBAF DEFA|BdAF FE E2|
Eeef defd|BABc defe|dBAF DEFA|1 BdAF Edcd :|2\
BdAF FE E2 ||