Description
An interesting book with many great titles and marvelous history which will be great fodder for your introductions of the tunes. With a few changes here and there you can make these arrangements your own. Chord changes are included. I would purchase this book for the repertoire (for example, it contains the very beautiful Da Slockit Light and even has a harmony part for it), and for the short history lesson that precedes many of the tunes. I would change around the notes here and there to suit my ear, especially some of the left hand notes. (Mary) The music is very readable, repertoire is superb. Tunes are divided into these categories: Sweden Connection, Dr. John Turner, John Playford, Tom Anderson, Music of Christmas.
Tunes include:
Alasdair Fraser/Caluim Sgaire
Annas Vista Leif Gorás
Ballydesmond Polka
Battle Cry of Munster, Air
Battle Cry of Munster, March
Brave Wolfe
Brave Wolfe – Lyrics
Breton Dance
Caluim Sgaire
Casadh an tSugain (Twisting of the Hayrope)
Christmas Eve Air
Christmas Hornpipe
Coilsfield House
Coilsfield House and Neil Gow
Colyn Fischer’s Style
Da Slockit Light
Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil (That Night in Bethlehem)
Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil (That Night in Bethlehem) – Lyrics
Fingal’s Cave
Fingal’s Cave John Gow
Gelding of the Devil
Green Gates
Ha a Chaillich air mo dheidh (My Old Wife Haunts After Me)
Ian S. Robertson
Jack’s Maggot
James Scott Skinner
Joesfin’s Waltz Roger Tollroth
John Turner’s Lament for the Death of His Wife
Josiah Chowning’s Strathspey
Knocknaboul Polka
Little Black Rose (an Roisin Dubh)
Little Pet and It’s Mother
MacPherson’s Lament
MacPherson’s Lament – Lyrics
Major Graham of Inchbrakie
Maurice Manley’s Polka
Morag of Dunvegan
Morag of Dunvegan and the Legend of the Fairy Flag
My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet
My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet – Lyrics
O Come, Divine Messiah
O Come, Divine Messiah – Lyrics
O’ A’ the Arts’
On the Cold Ground
Planxty Gan Ainm
Planxty Hewlett
Playford Medley
Reflection
Robert Burns – O’ A’ the Airts
Sitting in the Stern of the Boat
The Auld Resting Chair
The Bog Blossom
The Burn by the Barn
The Golden Thread
The Laird o’ Thrums
The Little Red Lark
The Little Red Lark – Lyrics
The Outlander’s Regret He’s Not Scottish
The Rose Tree
Twisting of the Hayrope – Story
Wallom Green