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During the late eighty's, The Pipers' Club in Dublin produced, on behalf of the Brooks Academy set dancing school, six tapes of cracking set dance music. The musicians (not just pipers) were naturally of a high calibre and thus inspired this set of two books, The Yellow Book and The Blue Book, which between them contain all 212 tunes from those tapes. Arranged in the same running order as the tapes, this is an excellent way of getting the feel for playing for dancing, as well as acquiring a wide-ranging repertoire of music. Slides and polkas feature heavily. Chords have been added throughout plus classified and alphabetical (with alternative titles) indexes and bibliography. These two books have a really unique character, well worth investigating.
Music for the Sets Series
The Blue Book
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Reels
Bonnie Ann
Christmas eve
Colonel Fraser
Doon reel
Down the broom
Fairy reel
Ger the rigger
Gorman's
Jenny's wedding
Killavil
Killoran's
Ladies' pantalettes
Leslie's
Maids of Mullach
Miss McGuinness
Miss Ramsay's
Old bush
Otter's holt
Over the moor to Maggie
Piper's despair
Pullet
Ravelled hank of yarn,
Road to Lisdoonvarna
Roscommon reel
Spike Island lasses
Stay and have another Stoney step
Tommy Peoples'
Trip to Durrow
Jigs
Happy to meet and sorry
Maguire's
Old torn petticoat
Ard an bhóthar
Bride's favourite
| Butcher's march
Cailleach an airgid
Clare jig
Eavesdropper
Frost is all over
Gold ring
Humours of Drinagh
Humours of Kesh
Jerry's beaver hat
Joe Derrane's
Kimmel's no. 1
Kimmel's no. 2
Mug of brown ale
Munster buttermilk
My darling asleep
Hag you have killed me
Old Tipperary
Paddy Fahey's Pádraig O'Keeffe's
Paidín O'Raifeartaigh
Ship in full sail
Sliabh Russell
Tom Billy's favourite
Hornpipes
Blackbird
An Comhra donn
Fly by night
Golden eagle
John Egan's
Murphy's
Polkas
Barren rocks of Aden
Bill Sullivan's
Captain Byng
Dark girl dressed in blue
Denis Doody's
| Din Tarrant's
Din Tarrant's no. 5
Finnegan's wake
An Gallope
Guillane polka
I have a bonnet
I'll tell me ma
Jack Ryan's
Jessica's polka Johnny O'Leary's
Neily Cleere's
Newmarket polka
Not for Joe
Britches full of stitches
O'Keeffe's
Tony Lowe's polka
Slides
Bowna
Bunratty boys
Connie Walsh's
Dan Patsy's slide
Denis Murphy's
Eibhlín ní Riordáin's
Julia Clifford's
Lisheen slide
Merrily kiss the Quaker
Pádraig O'Keeffe's
Sergeant Cahill's
Terry Teehan's
Weaver's slide
Slip jigs
Give us a drink of water
Hardiman the fiddler
Ride a mile
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