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




Irish Music - 400 Traditional Tunes


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400 classic Irish session tunes from the author of "A Complete to Playing Irish Traditional Music on the Whistle." A unique collection of the most popular tunes played in Ireland... and throughout the world. Complete with 400-track downloadable audio of each tune played at moderate tempo on tin whistle - over 5 hours of music! Download details on copyright page of book. These tunes are suitable for all melody instruments - tin whistle, flute, fiddle, uilleann pipes, accordion, concertina, banjo, mandolin, harp - and feature widely-played session standards as well as less common tunes. All the main tune types are represented - jigs, reels, hornpipes, slip jigs, set dances, polkas, slides, barn dances, marches, waltzes, carolan tunes, mazurkas and flings.




In Nearly Every House


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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.




A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music


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From the mythological harp of the Dagda to Riverdance, this concise history of Irish traditional music and dance explores a rich spectrum of historical sources and folklore. It uncovers the contribution of the Normans to Irish dancing, the rote of the music maker in Penal Ireland, and the popularity of dance tunes and set dancing from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. It also follows the music of the Irish diaspora from the music halls of vaudeville to the musical tapestry of Irish America today.




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.







75 Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina


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75 of the most popular Irish reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slip jigs and airs played at traditional Irish music sessions worldwide, with standard musical notation and with easy-to-learn tablature for the Anglo concertina.




The Companion to Irish Traditional Music


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"The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is not just the ideal reference for the interested enthusiast and session player, it also provides a unique resource for every library, school and home with an interest in the distinctive rituals, qualities and history of Irish traditional music and song."--BOOK JACKET.