100 Essential Irish Session Tunes


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The 100 most often played Irish reels and jigs: With these under your belt, you can sit in virtually any Irish session and make a significant contribution. `Session friendly' settings: Learn them as written and you can be confident of having accurate versions Extend your repertoire: `100 Vital Iirsh Session Tunes' contains tunes that form the very corner stone of Irish music sessions, they crop up with such regularity that it's vital that you are able to play them; every type of dance tune is represented. Another 100 popular session tunes - including slip jigs, hornpipes, set dances and slides - are to be found in `100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes' and a further 100 reels, jigs and hornpipes are contained in `100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes'. If it's polkas you want to learn, then try `100 Irish Polkas'







100 Irish Tunes for Piano Accordion


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From Apples in Winter to The Wise Maid, this collection of Irish jigs, reels, and polkas provides beginning to advanced players with a wealth of traditional Irishmusic for solo keyboard accordion. This collection includes a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of not only the keyboard accordion, but also the Irish button box and concertina. Herein too are many of the author's own arrangements. Some of the stellar players whose work appears here are: Jimmy Keane, Phil Cunningham, Alan Kelly, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Tom Doherty, Chris Sherburn, Sharon Shannon, and Tony MacMahon. With a basic guide to fingering and rhythm chord symbols included, this book will allow even the novice accordionist to join in a traditional Irish session. The audio features the author's performance of medleys including 21 of the book's 100 selections. Includes access to online audio




In Nearly Every House


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100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes


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Enhance your Irish session repertoire with this useful book of popular Irish tunes. It follows the usual session format of lots of reels, some jigs and a few hornpipes. Learn these 'session friendly' settings as written and you can be confident of having accurate versions. The music here is suitable for all melody instruments and includes chord symbols. Mally's and UK product #AM403.




100 Vital Irish Session Tunes


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"These tunes form the very corner stone of Irish music sessions. They crop up with such regularity that its vital that you are able to play them. Every type of dance tune is represented: reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slides, slip jigs, marches, set dances, waltzes, mazurkas, flings, a varsovienne, a barn dance, a single reel and a single jig. Session friendly settings: Learn them as written and you can be sure of having accurate versions. To help those whose music reading skills only extends as far as finding the notes."




O'Neill's Music of Ireland


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A facsimile edition containing the original collection of 1,850 melodies consisting of airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, marches, and more for fiddle




Field Guide to the Irish Music Session


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Field Guide to the Irish Music Session is the first and only book devoted entirely to the dynamics and etiquette of the traditional Irish musical gathering. There's more to these events than meets the eye or ear, and Field Guide covers it all, with an insightful blend of the humorous and the serious that is of value to both listeners and prospective participants.




100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes


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Expand your Irish session repertoire with this handsome selection of popular Irish tunes. Unlike other books of this nature the emphasis is away from reels. Here, you'll find slip jigs, hornpipes, slides, and an abundance of popular jigs. Learn these 'session friendly' settings as written and you can be confident of having accurate versions. The music here is suitable for all melody instruments and includes chord symbols. Mally's and UK product #AM402.




Notes from the Heart


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Charting the history of Irish traditional music since the turn of the century, award-winning record producer and radio presented PJ Curtis provides an overview of Irish music and song from the earliest recordings, through the bleak decades of the Forties and Fifties, to the popular renaissance of recent years. Vividly capturing the personalities of musicians, past and present, who have contributed to this living tradition, 'Notes from the Heart' explores the social milieu from which they spring, their influences, their cultural significance, and the social milieu from which they spring, their influences, their cultural significance, and the spirit and essence of the music they make.