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English Welsh Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes with CD
Robin Williamson
Over 100 tunes, an outstanding collection of the traditional music of Britain. Selected, introduced and annotated by Robin Williamson. For fiddle, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, flute accordion and concertina. Graded from easy to advanced. A recording by Robin is included. Soundtrack included.
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How to Play Folk Fiddle
Geoff Bowen
I know Geoff Bowen personally. He is utterley dedicated to traditional music and the fiddle and is also to devoted to passing on the tradition. This book teaches the fiddle using tunes from all the traditions of Britain with his usual meticulous care. Highly recommended. Soundtrack available.
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How to Play Folk Fiddle CD
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Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar CD Edition
Stefan Grossman, Duck Baker and El McMeen
The ancient Celtic repertoire offers the fingerstyle guitarist a tantalizingly wide range of moods and emotions from sad laments to lyrical ballads to vibrant dance rhythms. This collection presents a vast array of fingerpicking guitar solos settings on timeless airs, hornpipes, reels, planxties, set dances, jigs, slip jigs, marches and. The solos are in varied guitar tunings and are presented in notation and tablature. 27 songs from this book are on the CD.
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Easy Celtic Solos for Fingerstyle Guitar CD Edition
Lisle Crowley
These favorite Irish tunes have been arranged in sections of varying difficulty to provide material for beginning to advanced students. The first section of each arrangement is the easiest to play, with one or two more advanced sections following. Beginning students should be able to play the first section of these arrangements to produce a satisfying fingerstyle solo, while advanced players should be capable of playing the complete arrangement.
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Celtic Back-Up CD Edition
Chris Smith
This book teaches the most crucial function of a chord instrument in the Celtic seisún (session)- that of playing tasteful, interesting, imaginative, and supportive improvised accompaniment. Celtic Back-Up presents accurate and directly applicable information on the theory, conception, stylistic considerations, procedures, and resources for accompaniment. Every facet of seisún accompaniment is thoroughly explored.
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50 Solos for Irish Tenor Banjo
Gerry O'Connor and David McNevin
This book is the most comprehensive collection of banjo tunes currently available by two of the finest banjo players in Irish traditional music. Contains 50 tunes, featuring jigs, reels, and hornpipes arranged for E,A,D,G and A,D,G,C tunings.
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Rattling Banjos CD
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50 Solos for Irish Tenor Banjo CD Edition
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A Guide to Octave Mandolin & Bouzouki CD Edition
John McGann
Twenty tunes in styles from Irish to American, in a variety of tunings, melody and accompaniment, presented in standard notation and tablature, with a stereo CD (left channel melody, right channel accompaniment). Left and right hand techniques and chord voicings are thoroughly discussed. For the first time, the Celtic style "woven texture" accompaniment unique to the instrument is fully notated.
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Fiddle Tunes and Irish Music for Mandolin CD Edition
Dan Gelo
A fun-to-play collection of 62 favorite fiddle and Irish tunes arranged in notation and tablature for mandolin solo. Ideal music for intermediate level technical study in sight reading. The CD is in split-track format, thus allowing the mandolin student to play along with the mandolin solo, lively guitar accompaniment, or both. Due to time constraints, the CD contains only 18 songs from the book.
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Irish Mandolin Playing: A Complete Guide CD Edition
Philip John Berthoud
This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Irish mandolin playing. As well as being a complete guide for the absolute beginner, this book also contains a mine of information, useful tips and ideas for the experienced player. The book takes the reader from the basics of the mandolin right through to more advanced topics such as creating variations, emphasis, improvisation, playing with other musicians, practicing effectively and much more.
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Folk Music and Dances of Ireland
Breandán Breathnach
A study of the history, development and present condition of Irish traditional music song and dance. The techniques and styles of traditional playing are fully and expertly treated with special reference to the fiddle, the Irish Uilleann pipes and the whistle. Soundtrack available.
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Folk Music and Dances of Ireland CD
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Maggie's Big Book of Celtic Tunes
Maggie Sansone
This music book is a collection of 124 tunes arranged for the Hammered Dulcimer and other "C" melody instruments (recorder, pennywhistle, fiddle, mandolin, guitar). Chords are included. The Music is transcribed from the playing of Maggie Sansone, America's premier hammered dulcimer player and teacher specializing in Celtic music, from six of her most popular recordings.
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Complete Irish Flute CD Edition
Mizzy McCaskill and Dona Gilliam
While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays.
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The Irish Flute
Roger Holtmann
Irish favorites with piano accompaniment and sug- gested guitar chords. Titles include: A Visit to Ireland; Ballahaboy Fair; Bridget McBride; Captain O'Neill; Comely Jane Downing; Crossing the Stream; Fare You Well; For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name; Garryowen; Green garters; Kelly the Rake; Kiss Your Partner; Kitty of Coleraine; Larry O'Gaff; Mary's Return; Miss Johnson; My Love is Fair and Handsome; Nora O'Neill; O'Donnell Aboo; Shule Aroon; Tady's Wattle; and many more.
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Celtic Music for Folk Harp
Leslie McMichael and Laurie Riley
This book is intended to be an introduction to a style of music which has a long and noble history that is inextricable intertwined with that of the ancient harp. The tunes contained in this book were chosen for their playability on the folk harp as well as for ease of separating into categories of skill.
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100 Irish Tunes for Piano Accordion CD Edition
David DiGiuseppe
From Apples in Winter to The Wise Maid, this collection of Irish jigs, reels, and polkas provides beginning to advanced players with a wealth of traditional Irish music for solo keyboard accordion. This collection includes a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of not only the keyboard accordion, but also the Irish button box and concertina.
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100 Tunes for Piano Accordion
David DiGiuseppe
An Extensive collection of reels, jigs, hornpipes and polkas from the French Canadian, Cape Breton, Scottish, Shetland, New England, and Southern Old Time Traditions arranged for the piano accordion. Written with the beginner as well as the advanced player in mind, the arrangements are complete with ornamentation, fingering, left hand notation and chord symbols. Appropriate for any G clef instrument.
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Irish Melodies for Harmonica CD Edition
Phil Duncan
This book contains 138 well-known Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes, set dances, O'Carolan tunes, folksongs, ballads, airs and waltzes. These wonderful Irish melodies are written in harmonica tablature and standard notation for use on the 12-hole chromatic, standard 10-hole diatonic, and tremolo harmonica. Learning these melodies will enhance your playing skills as well as your repertoire. The stereo recording is in split-track format and includes a selection of 25 melodies from the book.
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Complete Irish Tin Whistle CD Edition
Mizzy McCaskill and Dona Gilliam
An extremely well-written, thorough study into contemporary and traditional tinwhistle music and performance. Included are chapters on fundamentals, ornamentation and more. Includes an accompaniment CD.
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£18.95 |
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The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle CD Edition
Grey Larsen
For the beginner to the highly advanced player of Irish flute, tin whistle, or Boehm-system flute. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method, exploring ornamentation techniques never described in print before. Also includes adaptations for Boehm-system flute players and guidance on breathing and phrasing.
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Music from Ireland
John Loesberg
A treasury of old Irish songs and tunes. Twenty songs plus thirty seven traditional dance tunes and airs. Suitable for all instruments.
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Bear-Bones
Andy Perkins
A nice little budget priced book containing ninety one tunes, particularly useful for beginners. It contains a wide range of tunes selected from all the main English speaking traditions. The tunes represent those that will be played at a typical general traditional music session at festivals and down the pub.
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Tunesmith
Jamie Smith
62 Celtic tunes by Mabon's Jamie Smith. A5 size, wirebound music book including chord suggestions, tempo markings, foreword and Jamie's personal notes on the tunes.
Features music from the Mabon albums 'OK Pewter' and 'Ridiculous Thinkers'. Released 2008.
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An Irish Tune Book Part 1
John Loesberg
A treasury of 100 airs and dance tunes suitable for all instruments selected on sheer melodic strength. All forms of Irish music are represented here in roughly equal proportions - a reflection of the fact that most musicians will want to try their hand at any Irish piece and most performances will usually include a mix of dance music, ballads, slow airs, Carolan tunes etc..
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An Irish Tune Book Part 2
John Loesberg
A further selection of 100 airs and dance tunes suitable for all instruments selected on sheer melodic strength.
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Carolan, His Life, Times and Music
Donal O'Sullivan
Originally published in 1958, Donal O'Sullivan's classic study of Turlough O Carolan became a musical and historical beacon for all those interested in Ireland's past and present. It is an indispensable tool for Irish musicians, who through this remarkable volume of research can go beyond the music itself, and engross themselves in the colourful world of this unique musician travelling in a still largely feudal Ireland of the 17th and 18th centuries.
This new edition contains all of the original sections, with all 213 tunes, the annotations to the tunes, The Memoirs of Arthur O'Neill, complete indexes and an important new appendix which features additional tunes and facts which have been unearthed since the original publication first appeared.
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A Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland
Pat McNulty
This book by Pat McNulty, Uillean piper from Glasgow, first published in 1965, being a collection of thirty five reels, twenty one jigs, ten hornpipes, five slip jigs and four set dances has stood the test of time and is still an extremely useful book.
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Musical Reflections of Ireland
John Loesberg
25 of the very best Irish songs and dance tunes including Sheebeg and Sheemore, Danny Boy and Slievenamon arranged for easy piano, keyboards, harp, accordion and most melody instruments.
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More Musical Reflections of Ireland
John Loesberg
25 of the very best Irish songs and dance tunes including Spancil Hill, Come Back Paddy Reilly and The Mountains of Mourne arranged for easy piano, keyboards, harp, accordion and most melody instruments.
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Tomas' Tunebook
Tomas OCanainn
Fifty new tunes of Irish dance music composed by Tomás O Canainn, suitable for all traditional players. Many of the tunes in this book have already entered the repertoire of musicians in Ireland and further afield.
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Saint Patrick Was a Cajun
L. E. McCullough
61 new Irish traditional compositions with chord arrangemnts by renowned tin whistle player L. E. McCullough, suitable for all instruments. In 1976 McCullough's original Irish folk compositions won first place in the All IrelandNew Dance Tune Competition. Soundtrack available.
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Saint Patrick Was a Cajun Double CD
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Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland
Tomas OCanainn
This major collection of traditional slow airs represents an important step forward in the documentation af Irish music. This book is the key to a fuller appreciation of a musical richness that stretches back through the centuries. Soundtrack available.
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Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland Double CD
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Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland CD Edition
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Whistle and Sing Book 1
Eamon Jordan
Songs, airs and dance music from Ireland. A delightful book containing eighteen songs and more than sixty tunes in simple, modern arrangements. Beginners can approach this book with confidence and more experienced players have the opportunity to elaborate. There are specific notes and hints for most traditional instruments. A brilliant book for all musicians, not just tin whistle players.
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Whistle and Sing Book 2
Eamon Jordan
A second fabulous collection of songs, airs and dance music of Ireland. This volume draws from wider sources such as country waltzes and mazurkas, whilst remaining true to the essence of Irish music. Each piece is set with Melody line and where appropriate, complete lyrics for easy/intermediate musicians. One hundred and eleven tunes in all, with performance and background notes as well as detailed sections about use of traditional instruments like the tin whistle, fiddle, mandolin, tenor banjo, concertina, accordion and Uilleann pipes. Eamonn Jordan’s refreshing, sometimes wry, approach compliments the style of the music he introduces and adds to the enjoyment of the pieces.
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The Darley and McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music
This famous collection of traditional Irish airs features all 85 originally published. The authors took down this great variety of jigs, reels, hornpipes, marches, slow airs etc. from many singers and instrumentalists all over Ireland. For many years only available to a priviledged few, this reprint will be a boon to anyone interested in traditional Irish music.
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O'Neill's 1001 Irish Tunes
Captain Francis O'Neill
This is the grandaddy of all Irish music books and is affectionately known as "The Book". Although not the most useful of books nowadays, it should be in every Irish musicians library. The book was first published around 1900 and was almost the only Irish music book around until well into the latter half of the twentieth century. The tunes were noted by Francis O'Neill in Chigago.
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The Turoe Stone Traditional Irish Flute Solos
Vincent Broderick
A unique collection of 68 jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, slip jigs barn dances, marches and airs composed by the renowned Galway flute player, Vincent Broderick. Soundtrack available.
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The Turoe Stone Collection Vol. 2
Vincent Broderick
This unique volume is the second collection of the renowned Galway flute player’s compositions and includes his wonderful ‘Ward’s Eviction Suit’. Vincent Broderick’s tunes have all the qualities that have made them, naturally and gracefully, such an important part of the Irish music tradition. The arrangements are suitable for all melody instruments.
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The Turoe Stone Collection Vol. 2 CD
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The Turoe Stone Collection Vol. 2 CD Edition
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Irish Tin Whistle Legends
Tommy Walsh
A nice book, by Tommy Walsh, of ninety five popular Irish traditional tunes suitable for the tin whistle and all other melody instruments. Featuring sections of specifically arranged tunes by some of Ireland's finest exponents of the instrument; Mary Bergin, Vincent Broderick, Micho Russell, Doncha O Briain, Paddy Maloney, Sean Potts and Micheal O hAlmhain.
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The Irish Piano Accordion
Tommy Walsh
17 Reels, 14 Double Jigs, 6 Hornpipes and 7 Songs with arrangements for piano accordion bass.
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The Levey Collections
R. M. Levey
Now entirely reset and published together in one volume, R.M.Levey ’s two collections, comprising over 200 tunes with simple piano accompaniments, are landmarks in the history of Irish music.These jigs,reels,hornpipes and other dances,transcribed just as they were performed,provide an invaluable reference for anyone interested in Irish music and a fascinating window into a bygone age.
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