Music of Ireland Series
Presenting a family of five books, designed to give value-for-money access to the wealth of tunes played in Irish sessions throughout these isles. Many were noted in sessions as being particularly good melodies, others were transcribed from commercial recordings because of the difficulty in finding satisfactory settings elsewhere. Thus, these volumes are not simply re-hashes of other collections. Each tune has chords appended and all in all the books represent a fascinating cross-section of the body of traditional Irish music – not just the reels and jigs. Each book leans a particular way – thus possessing its own unique character – and contains tunes which range from the popular through to some quite difficult lesser-known ones. Karen Tweed contributed the front cover artwork.
Each book contains approximately 70 tunes and has a classified index which abounds with alternative titles. The music is suitable for all instruments associated with traditional music and chords have been added for the accompanist.
| Reels Billy Brocker The Blackberry blossom Captain Kelly College groves Craig’s pipes The Daisy fields The Fair-haired boy Farewell to old decency First house in Connaught Golden wedding The Green mountain I have no money The Ivy leaf Jimmie Burns’ reel John Reid’s favourite Leslie’s reel Macroom lasses The Maid behind the bar Major Harrison’s fedora Molly bawn The New copperplate | Newly mown meadows Paddy Cronin’s no. 2 Paddy Ryan’s dream Paddy’s gone to France Paddy Taylor’s Ravelled hank of yarn The Reel of Bogie The Rising sun Tommy Peoples’ no. 2 Tom Ward’s downfall Touch me if you dare Travers’ reel Double Jigs And so to Ennis Bad luck to this marching Cherish the ladies Clancy’s Contentment is wealth The Eavesdropper The Gold ring Jack Coen’s Mag Long’s Maloney’s wife | Munster girl The Wandering minstrel Whoop! do me no harm Miscellany The Connemara Denis Murphy’s polka 4 Drops of springwater The Green cottage polka Johnny Leary’s polka Kilkenny races O’Rourke’s feast Quick! we have a second Hornpipes Bird’s Boys of Trillick Charlie Mulvihill’s The Flowers of spring Johnson’s hornpipe McGivney’s fancy Nehyl’s fiddle |
