Product Number:
31181M
Format:
Book + Online Audio/PDF Supplement
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
64
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
1-5134-7721-8
ISBN13:
978-15134-7721-3
Series:
Celtic Harmonica Encyclopedia
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
2/16/2024
This is the first volume of a four-part collection of over 200 Irish and Scottish dance tunes and airs arranged for standard Richter and Paddy Richter tuned 10-hole diatonic harmonicas. Volume One contains 37 famous Celtic airs, laments, mazurkas, and waltzes including “Danny Boy”, “The Last Rose of Summer”, “The Minstrel Boy”, “Macpherson’s Farewell”, “Annie Laurie”, and many others. The book includes standard notation in the original keys, harmonica tab, and guitar chords. There is also an instructional section explaining all the techniques you’ll need to know to play traditional music on harmonica. Also includes online audio files of the tunes and PDF of interviews with leading Celtic harmonica players about the details of their playing techniques.
Annie Laurie
Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
The Arran Boat Song
The Ash Grove
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Boolavogue
Cáit Ní Dhuibhir
Childgrove
Danny Boy
Down by the Salley Gardens
Farewell
The Foggy Dew (st and nd settings)
For Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name
Gentle Annie
Highland Mary
Jock O’ Hazeldean
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Last Rose of Summer
Logan Water
Macpherson’s Farewell
Mary, Young and Fair
The Minstrel Boy
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose
Neil Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife
The Parting Glass
Princess Augusta
The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
Rosin the Beau
The Shepherd’s Wife
Sir John Fenwick’s The Flower Among Them All
The Skye Boat Song
The South Wind
Two Irish Mazurkas (Sonny’s Mazurka and Tommy Peoples’ Mazurka)
The Wild Geese
The Wren
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