Compositions

All tunes recorded one day in 2003. Flute used was a fully keyed boxwood Rudall & Rose in concert pitch (D). The playing is a bit suspect on some of the tunes as I was a bit wrecked towards the end of the day. These recordings were made for Andy Morrow/Tony O’Connell so that they could evaluate some new tunes for a forthcoming CD (due out July 2004). Only one tune made onto the CD but there may be something here for somebody out there. All tunes are copyright Tom McElvogue and may not be downloaded and distributed without my permission. If for some strange reason you want to use the samples below, please contact me by email to discuss further. I can be reached at tom@tommcelvogue.com.

A number of the above tunes have actually made it to the open and been recorded commercially. I have detailed the CD’s below for information. If you know of tunes appearing anywhere else I would appreciate an email to let me know.

Thank you to Maarten Marchau for the sheet music transcriptions.

Jigs 11 and 12 are new additions and as such I don’t have any sheet music yet. When I get around to writing them up I will update accordingly. In addition to the compositions listed here there are a number on my new CD which I haven’t got around to recording separately for this listing. They are as follows – One slip Jig (Track 02 – Tom McElvogue’s Slip Jig 01), Two Jigs (Track 03 – Tom McElvogue’s Jig in G 09 & Track 5 – Tom McElvogue’s Jig in D 10). Feel free to listen to the track previews or purchase a CD if you feel so inclined!

There are also another couple of dozen tunes that were composed throughout my life but for whatever reason I never got to organise or record. I will be making an effort to get these up on the website over the next six months (time permitting).

A number of compositions ranging back to the early 1980′s.

These are a number of CD’s commercially available containing some of these compositions.

CD Title	Track	Track Details
The Kathryn Tickell Band	Track 2, 4^th tune	Out on the Ocean/The Cacodemon/Coast of Austria/Thomas McElvogue's No.1
	Track 5, 1^st and 3^rd tunes	Thomas McElvogue's No.2/Cuckold Come Out of the Amrey/Thomas McElvogue's No.3
The Best of Kathryn Tickell	CD2 Track 7, 1^st and 3^rd tunes	Thomas McElvogue's No.2/Cuckold Come Out of the Amrey/Thomas McElvogue's No.3
Vin Garbutt - 'Plugged!'	Track 6, 2^nd tune	THE BIRK BROW JIG (Garbutt)/THOMAS McELVOGUE'S JIG
Cara - 'In Full Swing - live DVD'	Track 8, 1^st tune	Tom McElvogue's No. 3 / The Flying Sofa / Good Morning, Squirrel / The Millbridge Reel
Cara - 'In Between Times'	Track 2, 1^st tune	Tom McElvogue's No. 3 / The Flying Sofa / Good Morning, Squirrel / The Millbridge Reel
More Maids - 'Mary Is Busy... Too Busy to Marry'	Track 6, 2^nd tune	Niall Keegan's / Thomas McElvogue's / Andy Renwick's Ferret
More Maids: Live	Track 11, 2^nd tune	Niall Keegan's / Thomas McElvogue's / Andy Renwick's Ferret
Seána Traditional Irish Harp - Seana Davey	Track 10, 1^st tune	Tom McElvogue's, The Woods of Old Limerick
Peter Mcalinden With Pete Quin - Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part	Track 7, 3^rd tune	The Mist Covered Mountain/Health to the Ladies/Tom McElvogue's
Claire Mann and Aaron Jones - Secret Orders	Track 1, 2^nd tune	Flowers of Brooklyn/McElvogue's R#6/Highest Hill in Sligo
Harriet Earis - Jumping Ahead	Track 4, 2^nd tune	The Mathematician hornpipe, McElvogue’s, The End of Christmas
Tony O'Connell & Andy Morrow	Track 4, 2^nd tune	Tom McElvogue's no. 3 / The Heights of Muingbhartha / The Boy in the Boat
Tom McConville - Tommy on the Bridge	Track 12, 1^st tune	Thomas McElvogue's/ Paddy O'Rafferty
Cé – Cé	Track 5, 3^rd tune	Ernestine Healy's/Timmy Clifford's/Tom McElvogue's/Mimi and the New Generation/Cúchulainn 8:2
From a Distant Shore - Irish Traditional Music from Donegal, England, America & Cape Breton Island	CD 4, Track 5, 1^st tune	Tom McElvogue's - Jig, New Irish Barndance, Untitled - Reel
A Taste of Ireland, Traditional Irish Music	Track 3, 1^st tune	Tom McElvogue's - Jig, New Irish Barndance, Untitled - Reel
Across The Waters - Irish Traditional Music from England	Track 5, 1^st tune	Tom McElvogue's - Jig, New Irish Barndance, Untitled - Reel
Flook – Flatfish	Track 9, 4^th tune	Flutopia Munera de Casa, Gavotenn bro. Dardoup, Macedonian Oro, Thomas McIlvogue’s
FYACE – Ian Carr, Karen Tweed	Track 4, 4^th tune	Christmas Christmas day in the morning, skymningspolskan, reel madrid, thomas mcelvogue’s no 5
Niall Keegan – Don’t Touch the Elk	Track 6, 1^st and 3^rd tune	Tom McElvogue’s Jig, Hardy’s Jig, Tom McElvogue’s Other Jig
Kevin Crawford – In Good Company	Track 2, 2^nd tune	Young Tom Ennis, The Mouse in the Mug
Sin É	Track 7, 2nd tune	Reels for Luke (2nd reel in this medley - uncredited on CD - this is reel 01 above)
The New Anthology of Music	CD4, Track 19	Tom McElvogue's - Jig, New Irish Barndance
An old recording of me playing the Prattens F flute for a Comhaltas Tour recording. At the time of this recording, my left leg was in plaster having torn the ligaments in my knee a day earlier. One take and therefore a bit rough around the edges. Drones by Padraig Donlon and Harp by Kim Fleming. An Irish Interlude, 1988 Track 1 – The First House in Connacht, Top of the Dresser (the thrush in the storm), Touch Me if Dare

These compositional pieces represent my recent endeavours into composition, orchestration and recording. (July 2011-Current)

After spending some time through trial and error trying to write orchestral arrangements/compositions, I realised how much I don’t know about the formal structures of music. These compositions are my attempts at going back to basics to try and write simple binary form compositions with single voice counterpoint. They are for the most part very wrong (structurally and musically) and I am really only sharing these in order to document my learning progress. I haven’t given up on the traditional music as such however I do find that I probably lack in much of the formal musical education that most musician’s may take for granted these days and it is important for me to understand more about this (albeit a little late in the day). I hope you don’t mind the shoddy piano playing and the poor first attempts but hopefully things should improve over time!

As part of my learning experience with midi sampling and formal composition and arrangement, I have started a number of reconstructions of orchestral music realised using the Vienna Symphonic Library of music samples. Very early days in this work but as with most of the other material here, this is still a work in progress which will hopefully provide some enjoyment/interest.