Where do the tune titles come from?
For each tune, you see all of the titles – and only the titles – under which that tune was published in the various sources I list on that tune’s Tune Info page. I present the titles exactly as they were published, including misspellings, Irish-language titles, mislabeled tunes, and other such errors that commonly plague albums and tunebooks. • Regardless of how problematically a recording lists a tune, whether as “Untitled,” or with obvious errors such as reversing the order of tunes or typographical errors, I still include these titles, since many people have no idea that these are errors and the tunes then become known among musicians by these erroneous titles. • If a book, however, designates a tune as “gan ainm” or “untitled” I do not include that in the list of titles – see instead my index of Untitled / Gan Ainm Tunes in Books. • When I include a note that a tune has been “mislabeled” on a particular album, that means that there was a very obvious error made such as mixing up th
