Celtic Songs & Music of the Isles
Folk Notes Music Books
Simply Celtic by Joe Collins
Simply Celtic is designed for the beginning through intermediate player. It includes 29 easy to read in tablature and standard notation. Songs are in DAd, DGd, and DAC, with one capoed tune. CD contains all 29 songs.
Simply Celtic Book & CD - $20.00
Simply Celtic Book only - $12.00
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Be Thou My Vision Barb’ra Allan The People that in Darkness Sat The Mountains of Mourne Scotland the Brave Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown (Bonnnie Doon) The Kesh Jig God, That Madest Earth & Heaven Love Came Down at Christmas Morning Has Broken The King of Love My Shepherd Is Wee Willie Winkie The Kesh Jig |
Be Thou My Vision Down by the Sally Garden Will You Go, Lassie, Go? Old Rosin, the Beau Comin’ Thro’ the Rye The Girl I Left Behind Me The Ash Grove Auld Lang Syne The Skye Boat Cockles and Mussels Loch Lomond The Mountains of Mourne Dennis Murphy’s Polka |
The
Celtic Collectionby Lorinda Jones
A collection of songs, jigs, hornpipes, airs, polkas, and marches from the Celtic lands of Scotland, Ireland, and England. The songs are arranged for mountain dulcimer primarily in 1-5-8 (Mixolydian) tuning, along with a few tunes in 1-5-5 (Ionian) tuning. Some arrangements make use of the capo, with tunes in Em and Bm, and include a Part II for a suggested harmony on selected songs. CD with all songs included.
$17.95 - The
Celtic Collection Book/CD
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Celtic Songs and Slow Airsfor the Mountain Dulcimer
by Neal Hellman
Stories of love lost, betrayal, jealousy, conflict, emigration, and the supernatural are often immortalized in songs of many traditions. This wonderful collection of prose and melodies is from Celtic traditions that have been with us for hundreds of years. These compositions have been arranged so each will work both as an air and as a song. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion CD.
Celtic Songs and Slow Airs BCD - $22.95
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Stór mo Chroí (Treasure of My Heart) Banks of Claudy, The Beauty in Tears Blind Mary Bonny Light Horseman Caoineadh an Spailpín (The Lament of the Spalpeen) Courting Is a Pleasure Down by the Sally Gardens (a.k.a. The Maid of the Mourne Shore) Éamonn a’ Chnoic (Ned of the Hill) Farewell to Tarwathie Flower of Magherally, The Flowers of the Forest Gabhaim Molta Bríde (A Prayer for St. Bridget) Heroes of St. Valery Lowlands of Holland, The MacPherson’s Farewell Maid of Coolmore, The Martha, the Flower of Sweet Strabane |
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Dream Mo Ghile Mear (My Spirited Love) Month of January Parting Glass, The Planxty Connor Praties, The Separation of the Soul from the Body Sí Beag Sí Mór (Little Fairy Hill and Big Fairy Hill) Sliabh na mBan (The Women’s Mountain) Snows They Melt the Soonest, The Star of the County Down Such a Parcel of Rogues When I Was on Horseback—Melody Arrangement When I Was on Horseback—Vocal Arrangement Will Ye No Come Back Again? Ye Banks & Braes |
Complete Book of Celtic Music forAppalachian Dulcimer by Mark Nelson
Mark Nelson's knowledge and love of Celtic music is evident through his choice of tunes for this comprehensive book. Harp music, the piper's repertoire, and fiddle tunes from Ireland, Scotland and Breton are all represented here. Background information on types of music and playing styles is presented, as well as sections on ornamtentation and harmonies. Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, Strathspeys, Polkas, Mazurkas, Slides, Marches, Piobaireachds, Set Dances, Airs, Planxties, Country Dances, Morris Dances. 168 pages.
Complete/Celtic Music for Dulcimer Book/CD-$29.95
| The Rose in the Heather The Frost Is All Over Haste to the Wedding The Connaughtman's Rambles Smash the Windows Off She Goes Tobin's Favorite Morrison's Jig The Joys of My Life The Blarney Pilgrim Joe O'Dowd's Another Jig Will Do The Drops of Brandy The Boys of Ballisodare The Kid on the Mountain Paddy O'Keefe's The Star Above the Garter Merrily Kissed the Quaker The Earl's Chair Pigeon on the Gate Jenny's Wedding The Musical Priest Cooley's Reel The Ships Are Sailing Delahanty's An Comhra Dun The Rights of Man The Rose Tree 1 The Rose Tree 2 Sonny Brogan's Mazurka Jackie Donnan's Mazurka The Downfall of Paris The Lodge Road Hewlett Hugh O'Donnell Si Beg Si Mor The Clergy's Lamentation |
The Snowy Breasted Pearl Lord Inchiquin O'Carolan's Concerto The Princess Royal Planxty George Brabazon Airde Chuain Si Bhean Locha Lein Cailm Son Eamonn an Chnoic Give Me You Hand Campbell's Farewell to Red Castle The Piobaireachd of Donald Ohu Scotland the Brave Kilcoy's March The Duke of Fife The Cameron Highlanders Miss Drummond of Perth The Duchess of Athole's Slipper Highland Whiskey Mairi's Wedding Harvest Home Staten Island Morpeth Rant Petronella The White Cockade Miss McCleod's Reel The Flowers of Edinburgh Soldier's Joy Jack Broke da Prison Door Far From Home Christmas Day Ida Moarnin' The Aith Rant The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord Oran Mor McCleod Mairi Mhin Meall-shuileach Farewell to Whiskey The Skye Boat Song |
Princess Augusta My Home Crodh Chinn Taile Loch Lomond The Trip We Took Over the Mountain The Aran Boat I Was Roaming in the Gloaming The Cruiskin Trunkles Dance to Your Daddy Princess Royal, Ducklington The Old Frog Dance Idbury Hill Can Cala Me The Cuckoo's Nest Child Grove The Ashgrove All Through the Night Morfa Rhuddlan Ffarweliwch, Rwy'n Madal A'm Gwlad Dans Mod Koh a Vaod Peh Trouz 'Zou ar en Doar Wedding Tune March from Leuelan An Dro from Noalou An Dro from Arzh Plin Jabadaw Breton March An Dro from Baod Danse Des Baguettes Laridenn Pluergad An Dro Hanter-Dro Voici Venir le Joli Mois de Mai |
Fifty Irish Songs and Tunesby Dallas Cline
Great Collection of many different and unusual Irish melodies collected over 30+ years. Arrangements of Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, Airs, and Songs by longtime dulcimer player and teacher Dallas Cline. Includes tabs in many tunings. From easy to advanced, including strumming, flatpicking, and fingerpicking arrangements. Dulcimer tablature and standard notation. There are 30 songs in DAA, DAC, DAD, and DGD tunings.
Fifty Irish Songs and Tunes - $14.95
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O'Carolan Harp Tunes forthe Mountain Dulcimer
by Shelley Stevens
Thirty tunes from Ireland’s most revered harper. The book contains standard notation and tablature with chords A majority of the tunes are in DAd tuning. The arrangements are suitable for intermediate to advanced players.
$8.95 - O'Carolan Tunes for Mountain DulcimerBlind Mary, Bridget Cruise, Carolan’s Draught, Carolan’s Dream, Cremonea, Denis O’Conor, Donal O’Brien, Eleanor Plunkett, Father Brian MacDermott Roe, John Drury, Kitty Magennis, Lady Gethin, Lady St. John, Lament for Terence MacDonough, Lord Inchquin, Miss Goulding, Miss Murphy, O’Carolan’s Concerto, One Bottle More, Peggy Morton, Planxty George Brabazon, Planxty Sweeny, Richard Cusack, Robert Hawkes, Sheebeg Sheemore, Sir Charles Coote, Squire Parsons, The Two William Davises
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