60 Traditional Pieces. Violist and composer Benedict Taylor presents a collection of 60 pieces for solo viola. Drawn from the rich tradition of Irish folk music the collection covers a range of styles including Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes and Marches. The volume includes notes on playing styles, and is accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes. German and French translations of all texts are av…

Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles. Par DUNCAN CRAIG. Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles is a collection of 29 traditional Irish, Scottish and English melodies that are particularly suited to being played on the fiddle. Traditional fiddle airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. …

Britten's Irish Reel was composed in 1936 as title music for a documentary film made by Marion Grierson and Evelyn Spice. Around the Village Green was made for the Travel and Industrial Development Association, which explored the changes to rural life in East Anglia after the increased mechanisation of agriculture. In his incidental music, Britten incorporated a riotous medley of folk songs and ot…

This second volume includes more than 20 traditional and modern carols and holiday favorites many of them from Keith and Kristyn Getty's Joy - An Irish Christmas public television special. They are great fun to play and a terrific resource for churches schools and anyone who enjoys caroling the story of Christmas! Songs include: Bethlehem Night - Go Tell It on the Mountain - Joy to the World (w…

Author Steve Marsh has spent many years playing guitar in the folk clubs of the United Kingdom where Irish music is in abundance. This collection draws from his extensive collection of original arrangements of traditional tunes.The songs vary in style and can be grouped into sets for use in a recital program. Many of the folk songs have been handed down from generation to generation so several ver…

A superb collection containing five varied folk tunes set for Viola or Cello with Piano accompaniment. Taken from the vast Petrie collection of Ancient Irish Music these traditional melodies have been freely and imaginatively adapted by Howard Ferguson to form a suite of concert and recital pieces. Part of the ABRSM syllabus.

Irish Folk Tunes Accordion is a collection of 30 arrangements of traditional tunes including a range of styles such as Reels, Hornpipes, Jigs and more.Accordionist Gemma Telfer provides notes on all of the tunes, as well as general notes on interpretation. The volume is also accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes performed by Gemma. German and French translations of all texts are availa…

The traditional American folk and bluegrassífavorite Angelina the Baker is cleverly arranged in an Irish dance style forístrings. Great fiddle style melodies accompanied by drone harmony make it funíto teach and play.