Download or read book English Welsh Scottish Irish Fiddle Tunes written by Robin Williamson and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 tunes, edited and annotated by Robin Williamson. From easy to advanced. For mandolin, banjo, flute, etc. With guitar chords. Includes these songs: All In A Garden Green Apples In The Winter Argeers As A Thoiseach Back Of The Haggard Belladrum's Strathspey Bishop Of Bangor's Jigg Boban John Bung Your Eye Byrnes Hornpipe Cadgers On The Cannongate Cam' Ye Ower Frae France Carolan's Farewell Carolan's Receipt Cherish The Ladies Chief O'neil's Favourite Christmas Day I' Da Mornin' Coilantogle Comb Your Hair And Curl It Constant Billy Corn Riggs Are Bonny Crowley's Reels Drops Of Whiskey Drumdelgie Dunse Dings A' East Neuk O' Fife Elslie Marly Farewell To Whiskey Flee Like A Bird Flowers Of Edinburgh Fortune My Foe Go To Berwick, Johnny Greensleeves Griffith Ap Cynan's Delight Hunting The Hare I'll Gang Na Mair Tae Ton Toon I'll Get Wedded In My Auld Claes I'll Mend Your Pots And Kettles Is The Big Man Within Jenny Nettles Jenny's Welcome To Charlie John Anderson's Eldest Daughter Lady Behind The Boat Lady Owen's Delight Lark In The Morning Laudanum Bunches Life Is All Chequered Linnen Hall Lulle Me Beyond Thee Madame Bonaparte Manage The Miser Mr. Cosgill's Delight My Darling Asleep Newcastle Niel Gow's Wife Off To California Old Mother Oxford Panmure House Paschal's Peerie Hoose Ahint The Burn Petticoats Loose Pleasures Of Hope Pleasures Of The Town Rakes Of Kildare Rakish Paddy Saith Nos Olau Sheffield Hornpipe Shooting Sleepy Maggie Small Coals For Nailers Staines Morris Sunday Was My Wedding
Download or read book English Welsh Scottish Irish Fiddle Tunes written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Fiddling Tunes Beautiful Airs Ballads of the British Isles written by Craig Duncan and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles is a collection of 29 traditional Irish, Scottish and English melodies that are particularly suited to being played on the fiddle. Traditional fiddle airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. The arrangements include stylistic “fiddle” phrasing and variations. Each of the tunes includes the fiddle melody with guitar accompaniment. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Celtic Song written by Cindy Thomson and published by 7th & Cherry Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celts have always been a people of songs. Stories, legends, and wise sayings were better remembered when put to music. While the melodies may have faded, the wisdom of these songs still rises from mountain, valley, and bog to lift the spirit and encourage the modern wayfarer.While music has always been an integral part of the lives of the people of the British Isles and the diaspora around the world, an exploration of why this is so has seldom been explored. Celtic Song will take readers on a journey to the past through a medium that uplifts the spirit and speaks to the heart.
Download or read book Folksongs of Britain and Ireland written by Peter Kennedy and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove for anyone interested in the folklore of the British Isles. Illustrated throughout, this lovely collection contains 360 folk songs from field recordings. Includes melody lines, lyrics, and chord symbols. Melody line format.
Download or read book Irish Fiddle Solos written by Peter Cooper and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes many favourite Irish fiddle tunes. Some are easy to play, others more challenging. the bowing techniques, ornamentation and other aspects of playing style summarized in the introduction will be familiar to readers of Pete's earlier book, the Complete Irish Fiddle Player, as will source musicians like Julia Clifford, Tommy Peoples, Lucy Farr, John Doherty and Padraig O'Keeffe. Here though, instead of proceeding in 'fiddle method' style from simpler to more complex tunes, regional repertoire and styles are explored. Grouped in sets for performance, the tunes from any one tradition can be of varying levels of difficulty. Less experienced players may find sets 5, 6 and 29, for example, quite approachable, as well as the first reel in set 14 and the second single jig in set 15. All tunes included on companion CD.
Download or read book Fiddle case tunebook written by Stacy Phillips and published by Fiddle. This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). Fifty fiddle tunes from the basic Irish, English, Welsh and Scotland repertoires. It includes well-known standards and obscure gems, as well as tips on authentic techniques and interpretation and a discography.
Download or read book The Companion to Irish Traditional Music written by Fintan Vallely and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is not just the ideal reference for the interested enthusiast and session player, it also provides a unique resource for every library, school and home with an interest in the distinctive rituals, qualities and history of Irish traditional music and song."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Wayfaring Strangers written by Fiona Ritchie and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.
Download or read book A Celtic Fiddle Christmas written by James Tanguay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a book you'll be pulling off the shelf for many Christmases to come. A Celtic Fiddle Christmas is a treasury of 24 Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English holiday carols all suitably adorned with Celtic calligraphy. Simple duets for two fiddles, a round for three, and arrangements for solo fiddle with guitar chords are all printed on a large, easy to read staff. from the hauntingly beautiful melodies of the Hebrides, to the ancient airs of Ireland, to the familiar Yuletide tunes of Wales, England and Scotland, these songs are sure to warm your heart and rouse the spirit of this giving season in a way no other music can.
Download or read book Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry written by Drew Beisswenger and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two southern most counties in Ireland, Cork and Kerry, have legendary music and dance traditions. on the border of these two counties, a rural area called Sliabh Luachra is especially well-known for its fiddle tunes and itinerant fiddle teachers. When speaking of this area's fiddle music, some describe a special lilt or backbeat, or they talk about the special role of set dances, but the most often expressed quality relates to the frequent use of slides and polkas. This book features transcriptions of 107 tunes as played by three of the region's most distinguished fiddlers: Pádraig O'Keeffe, Denis Murphy, and Connie O'Connell. Each fiddler is profiled, followed by a collection of meticulously transcribed tunes and annotations. an accompanying CD includes 30 of these tunes played solo by Connie O'Connell.
Download or read book Dulcimer Fiddle Tunes written by LOIS HORNBOSTEL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the mountain dulcimer books published over the past 20 years, this book is the jam-session standard. Contains 40 favorite fiddle tunesthat can easily be played in the regular keys and upto speed. In notation and tablature. Level of difficulty - intermediate. (Arranged for the beginner to advanced player intraditional keys fo they can be played with other instruments. Accompaniment chords included.)**Note - only 25 songs of the 40 total from the book are on online audio
Download or read book Songs of Britain A Collection of One Hundred English Welsh Scottish and Irish National Songs written by Frank Kidson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Easy Celtic Harp Solos written by Laurie Star Edwards and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoke the traditional sounds of the Celtic lands with these instrumental arrangements of songs for solo Celtic harp. These 25 tunes are Manx, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Hebridean, and Bretton, including pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and Robert Burns. Notes at the end of the book give insights into the meanings of the texts of the songs, aiding interpretation and inviting you to experience the ambience of the Celtic lands through their music. Lyrics for selected songs are given in the notes in English.
Download or read book Complete Book of Irish Celtic 5 String Banjo written by Ton Hanway and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important anthology of Irish and Celtic solos for the 5-string banjo featuring a comprehensive, scholarly treatise on the history, techniques, and etiquette of playing the banjo in the Celtic tradition. Includes segments on tuning, pick preferences, and tablature reading followed by 101 jigs, slides, polkas, slip jigs, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys, O'Carolan tunes, plus a special section of North American Celtic tunes. A generous collection of photos of Irish folk musicians, street scenes, and archaeological sites further enhances this fabulous book. All of the solos included here are written in 5-string banjo tablature only with a few tunes set in unusual banjo tunings. the appendices provide a sizable glossary and a wealth of information regarding soloists and groups playing Celtic music, Irish festivals, music publications, on-line computer resources, cultural organizations, and more. If you are serious about playing Celtic music on the 5-string banjo, or if you don't play the banjo but simply want to expand your knowledge of the Celtic music tradition-you owe yourself this book. the first-ever CD collection of Irish and Celtic music for 5-string banjo provides 68 lovely melodies and demonstrates revolutionary techniques for playing highly ornamented tunes and rolling back-up. Recorded in stereo with virtuosos Gabriel Donohue (steel- and nylon-string guitar and piano) and Robbie Walsh (bodhran- frame drum played with a stick), the five-string banjo is out front and plays through each melody in real-life tempo with authentic Celtic chordal and rhythmic backing. the recording features the music of all Six Celtic Nations and includes jigs, reels, hornpipes, slides, polkas, marches, country dances, larides, andros, slipjigs, strathspeys, airs and O'Carolan tunes. 35 songs in the book are not on the CD.
Download or read book Appalachian Fiddle written by Miles Krassen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-eight grand old tunes from the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, and breakdowns, transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers, with authoritative notes, ideas for embellishments, bowing techniques, and double stops chart.
Download or read book The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music written by Neil Gow and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to the dance tune library and an important milestone in traditional music publishing. This volume of almost 600 strathspeys, jigs and reels has been compiled from the original collections published between 1784 and 1822 by Niel and Nathaniel Gow, the father and son violinist/composers. Niel Gow revolutionized Scottish music by inventing a new style of bowing, known as the ‘up-driven’ technique, that accented the unique strathspey rhythm. Besides the invaluable contributions of the Gows, other important Scottish composers such as William Marshall and Donald Dow are featured, as well as some of the more important tunes in the traditional Scottish repertoire. This unique collection also features detailed notes on the life and times of Niel and Nathaniel Gow, an analysis of the ‘up-driven’ bow technique, the origination of the strathspey as well as a complete discography and bibliography. This book will prove an invaluable addition to your repertoire and home library.
