Learn to Play Irish Fiddle is a book and online audio that introduces the absolute beginner to the great traditional Fiddle music of Ireland going right from the basics of how to hold and make the first soundson the instrument - through specially composed manageable tunes in the Irish style - right up to playing traditional reels jigs and other dance tunes from the traditional repertoire (the s…

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Celtic/Irish Series : Complete Number of pages : 192 While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learni…

Collections of traditional songs in Irish are rare. Stor Amhran - a wealth of songs from the Irish tradition is unique in that it is the first book of songs in Irish collected and noted from one singer. The editor Noirin Ni Riain is already well known in the field of sean-nos songs both in the areas of creativity and criticism. The fifty songs notated here were learnt by her through personal co…

A popular and well-known Traditional Irish song arranged for Piano Guitar and Vocals by T.C. Kelly. The words were written by Irish poet W.B. Yeats and the music is based on the melody from an Old Irish Song. An evocative and warm ballad for all those who love traditional Irish music.

71 Traditional Pieces-Irish Folk Tunes for Flute presents seventy-one superb Irish traditional tunes including jigs reels polkas hornpipes and slow airs and pieces by Carolan and are suitable for flute recorder or tin whislte. Experienced folk musician Patrick Steinbach provides an excellent introduction explaining style and traditional ornamentation and there are also notes on each of the…

Traditional Irish-This traditional Irish tune has been arranged numerous times. Here Dan Rash provides a unique and creative new look at this familiar melody set for male voices with piano and Irish whistle.

Edward Bunting fell into his destiny when at the age of 19 he was commissioned to write down the tunes performed at a gathering of traditional harp players in Belfast in July 1792. This innocent beginning signaled the start of a 100-year process of enormous importance: the preservation of a country's music which otherwise might be lost forever. In time Bunting passed the torch to apprentice Ge…

A collection of interviews of the top fiddlers in the Irish tradition Handy with the Stick brings together previously published magazine pieces with new work to present a broad view of Irish fiddling. Interviewees include TommyPeoples Siobhan Peoples Paddy Glackin Matt Cranitch John Carty Brendan McGlinchey Caoimhin O Raghallaigh and Sarah Blair. Historical pieces include Junior Crehan P…

The compositions of Turlough O'Carolan born in 1670 have a special place in the story of Irish music as does the figure of Carolan himself a blind itinerant harper living at a time of significant change in Irish history.Carolan seems to embody the image of the old bards in whom resided the last vestiges of the ancient music and the lost art of extempore poetry. His music is often seen as a lin…

20 Easy to Intermediate Arrangements for Alto Flute and Piano. Originally published in a different format, Potter's Alto Flute Solos is here issued in a separate book for alto flute and piano accompaniment. This collection contains works at the easy and intermediate levels, and includes popular recital pieces such as Bizet's Habanera from Carmen, the traditional Irish tune Danny Boy, and 18 others…