Celtic Harmonica Encyclopedia Volume 3 (eBook + Online Audio)
Reels & Polkas

This is the third 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 Three contains 43 famous reels and 17 polkas, including “Lord Gordon’s Reel,” “The Boys of the Lough,” “The Congress Reel,” “The Rakes of Mallow,” “The Britches Full of Stitches,” “Maggie in the Woods,” and many others. The book includes standard notation in the original keys, harm ...more

Product Number:
31195MEB
Format:
eBook + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
72
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-5134-8371-4
ISBN13:
978-15134-8371-9
Series:
Celtic Harmonica Encyclopedia
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
5/29/2025

This is the third 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 Three contains 43 famous reels and 17 polkas, including “Lord Gordon’s Reel,” “The Boys of the Lough,” “The Congress Reel,” “The Rakes of Mallow,” “The Britches Full of Stitches,” “Maggie in the Woods,” and many others. The book includes standard notation in the original keys, harmonica tab, guitar chords, introductory notes on the individual tunes, and downloadable audio files of the tunes, along with a PDF download of interviews with leading Celtic harmonica players about the details of their playing techniques.

Foreword by Winslow Yerxa.


Foreword

Introduction

The Reels & Polkas

Reels

The Banshee

Batchelder’s Reel

Blair Athole

The Boys of the Lough

The Broken Pledge

The Bunch of Rushes

Come Dance and Sing

The Congress Reel

The Cup of Tea

The Fiddlehead Reel

Gallopede

The Girl That Broke My Heart

Glenn Barrett’s Delight

Glise a Sherbrooke

Green Mountain Petronella

The Harvest Field

The Hesleyside Reel

The Hunter’s Purse

The Jug of Punch

The Killarney Boys of Pleasure

Kilmaley

Lord Gordon’s Reel

Father Kelly’s Reel

The Maids of Mitchelstown

The Maids of Tulla

Big John McNeil

Miss Monaghan’s Reel

The Mountain Road

The Mouth of the Tobique

The Mullingar Races

Navvy on the Line

The Old Copperplate

Over the Moor to Maggie

Pays de Haut

Polo

The Rainy Day

The Salamanca Reel

The Salley Gardens

Scollay’s Reel

Simple Gifts

Tarbolton Lodge

Wellington’s Reel

You Married My Daughter, Yet You Didn’t

Polkas

Jamie Allen

Ballydesmond Polka #2

The Britches Full of Stitches

The Dashing White Sargeant

Pat Horgan’s #2

Jer the Rigger

The Lakes of Sligo

Jenny Lind Polka

Maggie in the Woods

Mairi’s Wedding

Many a Wild Night

Denis Murphy’s Polka

The Rakes of Mallow

The Rattling Bog

John Ryan’s Polka

The Siege of Ennis

Billy Sullivan’s Polka

 
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