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Fiddler's Tune-Book
Fiddler's Tune-Book Series Peter Kennedy
First published in the early 1950s and now re-printed with chords, The Fiddler's Tune-Book was a landmark collection, edited by veteran folklorist and collecter Peter Kennedy. This book is crammed with 200 core repertoire tunes for all traditional musicians. If you have no traditional music books, this is the first one you should buy.
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Airs for Pairs Vol.1
Matt Seattle
This book contains twenty of the most popular traditional melodies, both dance tunes and song airs, from around Britain and Ireland. Each tune is arranges with a harmony part for a second melody instrument as well as a chord accompaniment. Soundtrack available.
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More Airs for Pairs
Matt Seattle
This book of duets contains a further twenty one tunes from around the British Isles of core repertoire which the editor, Matt Seattle, feels should have a place in the repertoire of all musicians who reside in these Islands, plus some interesting older tunes as well as more recent music composed in traditional idioms. The balance in this book is weighted a little more in favour of the slower tunes.
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Scottish Airs for Pairs
Matt Seattle
This book of duets contains twenty one Scottish tunes of core repertoire which the editor, Matt Seattle, feels should have a place in the repertoire of all musicians who reside in these Islands.
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110 Ireland's Best Fiddle Tunes
Paul McNevin
110 of the best tunes in any fiddler's repertoire, specially chosen and arranged by Paul McNevin, one of Ireland's top players and teachers. Includes a special feature on rolls, cuts, triplets and other ornamentation. Soundtrack available.
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110 Ireland's Best Fiddle Tunes 2 CDs
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110 Ireland's Best Fiddle Tunes CD Edition
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110 Irish Fiddle Tunes Vol. 2
Sinéad Madden
This is a compilation of Sinéad Madden’s favourite tunes, some of which she has been playing since her school days. Contains lots of popular reels and jigs. Guitar chords are included.
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110 Irish Fiddle Tunes Vol. 2 2 CDs
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110 Irish Fiddle Tunes Vol. 2 CD Edition
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Fiddler's Fakebook
David Brody
The ultimate sourcebook for the traditional fiddler. Contains nearly 500 jigs, reels, rags, hornpipes and breakdowns from all the major fiddling traditions. Special introductory materials on regional styles, bowing and ornamentation. Includes an extensive discography.
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The Irish Fiddle Book
Matt Cranitch
The art of traditional fiddle playing by Matt Cranitch. A comprehensive tutor covering all aspects of Irish fiddle playing, dance music and slow air playing. The book contains an introductory section for beginners and detailed musical transcriptions. A section of 101 traditional tunes for all musicians.
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The Irish Fiddle Book Demo CD
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The Irish Fiddle Book CD Edition
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Irish Session Tunes Red Book
Matt Cranitch
100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airs, selected by Matt Cranitch.
This collection contains a varied selection of widely played and lesser known tunes, divided into different dance rhythms: double jigs, slides, slip jigs, polkas, reels, hornpipes, set dances and airs.
The range of the tunes are particularly suitable for the fiddle, but can be used on other instruments. Give it Shtick and Take a Bow CDs contain 63 tunes from this book.
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Give it Shtick CD
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A Complete Guide to Learning The Irish Fiddle
Paul McNevin
This book presents in a clear and concise form the basic building blocks necessary to play Irish fiddle music in a traditional manner. The student is taken step by step through carefully graded exercises and pieces which help to establish good finger and bowing habits. Soundtrack available.
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A Complete Guide to Learning The Irish Fiddle CD
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A Complete Guide to Learning The Irish Fiddle with CD
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50 Irish Fiddle Tunes
Tommy Peoples
Selected and arranged by Tommy Peoples Fifty choice tunes,as arranged and played by one of the all-time greats of Irish traditional fiddling.
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Fiddler's Fancy CD
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50 Irish Fiddle Tunes CD Edition
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50 Tunes for Fiddle, Volume 1 CD Edition
Mark Geslison
All tunes contain a simple melody and most of the tunes contain an intermediate or advanced part. Many tunes contain a harmony part to match the melody. Since fiddle contests are a tradition in American and Celtic fiddling, 50 Tunes Volume 1 for Fiddle contains hoedowns, waltzes, reels, rags, hornpipes, jigs, polkas and airs.
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Come Fiddle With Me CD Edition
Julianne Hay
A collection of 16 fiddle duets ranging in difficulty from moderate to challenging for the experienced fiddler. The music has been arranged with melody and harmony for old time favorites and a few new original pieces for two or more players. The CD included is a good learning tool as it demonstrates how the duets should sound. The book is especially suited to young and older players who will find the difficulty of the music advances with each page turn.
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Irish Fiddle Playing - A Guide for the Serious Player CD Edition
Philip John Berthoud
The book is designed to make the personal aspects of traditional Irish fiddle playing, improvisation and interpretation, accessible to novice players. Drawing on his experience writing out reels, jigs and other tunes for new players at a North London session and teaching fiddle, the author conveys what to do with tunes to make them your own.
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Irish Fiddle Playing Vol. 2 - A Guide for the Serious Player CD Edition
Philip John Berthoud
As with the first book in the series, it contains pieces of advice from the author’s 25 years of playing music. The format of the book is similar to this first book. Section 1 deals with various aspects of fiddle playing. Section 2 contains a selection of mostly well-known tunes, fully transcribed with variations, embellishments/ornaments. These tunes are all included on the accompanying recording.
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The Complete Irish Fiddle Player
Pete Cooper
In his preface, the author reminds the reader that this is not a book for the absolute beginner. Even the experienced player may not "get it" on first reading a given tune, but "You can expect to enjoy the process of learning... [and experience] the joy of recreating a traditional tune, of making it your own." This is the teacher/ student pact in effect throughout this marvelous book.
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The Complete Irish Fiddle Player CD Edition
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£21.95 |
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Ryan's Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes
Edited by Patrick Sky
This comprehensive book is a facsimile edition of the original collection published in 1883. It has survived over the years because it is one of the richest and most interesting of the 19th century instrumental collections as well as a resource for students of American vernacular music.
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Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
A healthy balance of Irish and Scottish traditional standards and contemporary Cape Breton compositions.
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Jerry Holland The Second Collection
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
No duplication of tunes from past books good mix of traditional and original tunes (120 new Holland compositions) complete with chords.
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Winston Fitzgerald A Collection of Fiddle Tunes
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
This book presents Scottish, Irish and Cape Breton Music as interpreted by one of the greatest fiddlers of the 20th century. Winston's performances were always sparkling with brilliance, yet his impeccable melodic sense makes the music both attractive and learnable for musicians of all levels. This book, the fourth in The Cape Breton Musical Heritage, presents unique Cape Breton settings of tunes without duplicating readily available sources.
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The Cape Breton Fiddlers Collection
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
This book celebrates the vibrant musical culture of Cape Breton Island. It gives a refreshing glimpse into a rooted, community-based, living tradition. Fiddle tunes from more than seventy-five contemporary composers are presented together with Scottish and Cape Breton music from earlier centuries. Compiled as a part of Cranford Publications Cape Breton Musical Heritage Series, this collection is presented to give recognition to The Cape Breton Fiddlers Association.
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Fiddle Tunes for the Violinist
Betty M. Barlow
Jigs reels and hornpipes are great fun to play when appropriately bowed and fingered. This collection of favourites has been carefully edited to make it possible for the student and amateur violinist to build real fiddling skills. The dances tunes have been arranged in order of difficulty and are in the easy fiddle keys of G, D and A. Includes separate copies for fiddle and piano.
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Fiddle Case Tunebook - British Isles
Stacy Phillips
This book contains some of the standard repertoire of fiddle tunes from the British Isles. Irish tunes predominate many in Sligo style but Scottish, Welsh, Shetland and Northumbrian tunes are included all arranged the way a fiddler might actually play them. Informative introductory material gives tips on techniques and interpretation.
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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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Scottish Folk Fiddle Tutor with CD
Christine Martin and Anne Hughes
The tunes in this tutor are mostly well known and this will encourage ear playing as well as reading.Exerceises and photographs are included to help overcome difficulties found in the tunes. There are no age barriers in fiddling and this book is suitable for all beginners. 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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A Guide to Bowing
J. Scott Skinner, edited by Alastair J. Hardie
First published circa 1900 "A Guide to Bowing" by J. Scott Skinner is a unique blend of bowing manual, fiddle tutor and colourful subjective comment. Written with the author's typical enthusiasm and musical patriotism, it makes a fascinating document of its time.
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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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Before the Night Was Out …
East Anglian Traditional Music Trust
Before the Night Was Out aims to shed light on the way in which traditional music in Suffolk and Norfolk has thrived and mutated during the twentieth century, as well as providing a resource for practising musicians. It includes: polkas, hornpipes, jigs, schottisches and waltzes, including comparative versions, transcribed from recordings of more than twenty different melodeon players, fiddlers and dulcimer players.
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Forget Me Not - A Collection of 50 Memorable Traditional Irish Tunes CD Edition
Séamus Connolly and Laurel Martin
This refreshing approach by Connolly and Martin enables individuals to learn and master the tunes at their own pace and interest level by sight, sound, or both, with one reinforcing the other for maximum retention and refinement. Complete with background notes. A handy source of great Irish tunes and an invaluable resource for developing technique.
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Martin Hayes - Under the Moon
Martin Hayes transcribed by Allan Macdonald
Martin Hayes of County Clare is the most eloquent fiddler to come out of Ireland in many a year. The whole gamut of human emotions can be found in his playing, from gentle yearning to soul-filled longing, and from mischievous playfulness to fierce passion. The spirit of Irish music is captured here in approximately 25 tunes presented singly or in complimentary pairs and medleys.
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Martin Hayes - Under the Moon CD Edition
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O'Neill's 1850 Melodies
Captain Francis O'Neill
A facsimile edition containing the original collection of 1,850 melodies consisting of airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, marches, and more for fiddle.
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The Fiddle Music of James Hill
Northumbrian Pipers' Society
Published in 2005, this contains a collection of hornpipes and other tunes, by James Hill and other musiciansof his period, principally selected from local sources.
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Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia
Bonnie Rideout
The purpose of this book is to offer fiddlers direct access to the gems of the genre. Composers represented in this volume span a three hundred year period including works by: Patrick MacDonald, Adam Craig, Capt. Charles Duff, Simon Fraser, Robert and Joseph Lowe, Robert MacIntosh, William Marshall, and J. Scott Skinner. Ms. Rideout's original compositions are also included.
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The Kilted Fiddler
Alan Lerwick
A collection of Scottish fiddle tunes compiled and arranged by Alan Lerwick. One hundred and sixty seven tunes including reels, strathspeys, jigs, watzes, marches and slow airs. As well as a tunebook for the musician already playing Scottish fiddle, it also contains various types of other tunes played by the traditional fiddler in Scotland.
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First Ceilidh Collection for Fiddlers
Christine Martin and Anne Hughes
This collection of memorable Scottish tunes should provide the key for traditional musicians to join in at ceilidhs, sessions, social gatherings etc.. The familiar and and frequently requested tunes are suitable for the less experienced player, and from the early stages. They are arranged in sets suitable for performing at dances. Simple chords are included.
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Second Ceilidh Collection for Fiddlers
Christine Martin and Anne Hughes
This second collection of memorable Scottish tunes, has been compiled and arranged by Christine Martin and Ann Hughes after many requests from musicians for a further volume. Again the material is ideal for beginners but some of it is slightly more advanced than volume 1. The dance sets for a celidh have been added where appropriate. Simple chords are included.
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Third Ceilidh Collection for Fiddlers
Christine Martin and Anne Hughes
This third collection of memorable Scottish tunes, has been compiled and arranged by Christine Martin and Ann Hughes after numerous requests from musicians for even more tunes. Again the material is ideal for beginners but some of it is slightly more advanced than in volumes 1 and 2. The dance sets for a celidh have been added where appropriate. Simple chords are included.
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Fourth Ceilidh Collection for Fiddlers
Christine Martin and Anne Hughes
This fourth book of memorable Scottish tunes is a lively collection for dancing, to supplement the other three collections and add variety to you dances. Taken from the music played by musicians all over Scotland, it includes popular music from Scotland Ireland England and Canada arranged in dance sets. Included are dances such as The Virginia Reel and Pride of Erin Waltz.
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Ceol na Fidhle Vol. 1
Christine Martin
A series of accurately produced books, compiled and edited by Christine Martin, which reflect the present day repertoire of the Highland fiddler and accordionist. There seemed a need to have this material easily available for reference as some of the tunes are unpublished and many are available only in pipe tune settings. Simple chords are included.
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