Everyone enjoys Celtic Folk Songs and Folk Hymns but not all realize that often they can be one and the same. A hymn text has often found its home in a folk song and a secular text sometimes finds a home in a hymn tune. This collection has a little of both. All but one of the tunes in this collection are of Celtic origin. The exception, ?Amazing Grace,? is a folk hymn of unknown origin that has all the markings of a Celtic Tune, including a pentatonic harmonic foundation.
For the harpists who also like to understand the history of a tune or even sing along, a variety of texts along with information about the tune and the lyrics can be found in the back of this book in the ?Notes on the Tunes.?

Titles: Ad Hyd y nos, Annie Laurie, Auld Lang Syne, Bunessan, Brother James' Air, Down By the Salley Gardens, Greensleeves, Iona Boat Song, Rorate (Rorate Coeli Desuper), Londonderry Air, New Britain, O Waly Waly, Slane, Scots W' Hae, The Ash Grove, Royal Oak, The Twenty-Ninth of May, St. Denio, Skye Boat Song, The Bard of Armagh, The Streets of Laredo, The Caledonian Hunt's Delight, St. Columba, The Road and the Miles to Dundee, The Rowan Tree, Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon

One of the nicest things about this book is that each song has a short but lovely introduction!

Song List: Adoro Devote (th Century Plainsong) Allegro (Anon) Alman (Robert Johnson) An dro An Drochshaol (The Hard Times) An Italian Rant (John Playford) Andante (Anon) Aura Lee Ballade (Anon) Bear Dance (Anon) Beautiful Dreamer Believe Me If All Those Endearing Charms Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Black Sunday Blessed Reunion Branle Double (Michael Praetorius) Cailin Deas Crúite na mBó (Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow) Call The Ewes Canarios (Gaspar Sanz) Carolan's Dream Carolan's Fancy Chanter's Tune Chestnut (John Playford) Childgrove (John Playford) Clancy's Wake Come With Me, My Giselle (Adam De La Halle) Coming Home Cooley's Reel Courting is a Pleasure Darling Nellie Gray Dont vient cela (Susato/Danserye ) Dowland's Ghost (W Bay) Down by the Sally Gardens Drowsie Maggie Endless Horizon Fair Flower Of Northumberland Fields Of Culloden Flint Hills Fortune My Foe (Anon) Gavotte (Michael Praetorius) Golden Fields Greensleeves (Anon) Greyfriars Bobby Grimstock (John Playford) Guardeme Las Vacas (Luis De Narvaez) Guilderoy Hard Times, Come Again No More Harvest Festival Hills Of Ireland I Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair I Went To Visit The Roses In The Pines Irish Prayer Jock O'Hazeldean John Anderson, My Jo Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier Just A-Wearyin' For You Just Before The Battle, Mother Kean O'Hara (First Air) Kemp's Jig (John Playford) La Folias (Gaspar Sanz) Lady Laiton's Almain (John Dowland) Land of Rest Londonderry Air Lorena Macdonald, Lord Of The Isles MacPherson's Farewell Mara's Theme Master Shardlake (W Bay) Meadowlark Meramec Echoes Mighty Lak' A Rose Moderato (Anon) My Irish Home My Lagan Love My Spirited Love Mystic Valley Ned Of The Hill New Day O Esca Viatorum (Louis Bourgeois) On The Cold Ground (John Playford) Once I Had A Sweetheart Ozark Memories Packington's Pound (Anon) Paper Of Pins Parson's Farewell (John Playford) Pastourelle (th Century French) Pigeon On The Fence Prairie Sunrise Prairie Sunset Pretty Peggy - O Quiet Summer Night Rainfall Remembrance Rose Of Sharon Saltarello (Vincenzo Galilei) Saturday Night Waltz Scarborough Fair Shady Grove She Moved Through The Fair Sheebeg and Sheemor Shenandoah Si pour t'aymer (Anon) Southwind Waltz Spagnoletta (Michael Praetorius) St Martin's (John Playford) Star of the County Down State Fair Storm Coming Summer Plans Sunflower Waltz The Bonny Light Horseman The Boys Of Ballisodare The Brave Lad The Church on the Prairie The Connachtman's Rambles The Flowers Of Sweet Erin The Green The Fragrance of Fall The Galway Shawl The Highlander The Highwayman's Reel The Lark In Clear Air The Lilting Banshee The Lonesome Dove The Long Road The Lost Child The Marsh of Rhuddlan The Mist Covered Mountain (Jig) The Mist Covered Mountains Of Home (Ballad) The Old Country The Old Homestead The Parting Glass The Rambling Pitchfork The Shearing's Not For You The Water Is Wide The Yearling TO a Wild Rose To Drive The Cold Winter Away (John Playford) Trail Of Tears Treasure Of My Heart Tutte Venite Armati (Anon) Village Meeting House Volte (W Bay) Wild Mountain Thyme Wilson's Wilde (Anon) Winfield Waltz

What Child Is This? is a dynamic collection of seven familiar Christmas carols creatively arranged for solo piano by Michael Ware. Express the joy of the season with bursts of rhythmic energy and intimate, quiet moments. These arrangements are sure to please in a worship or concert setting.

Collection includes:

Christmas Angel Medley (Angels We Have Heard on High with Hark! the Herald Angels Sing)

What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)

On Christmas Day in the Morning (I Saw Three Ships with Good Christian Men, Rejoice)

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Still, Still, Still

Sing We Now of Christmas

Silent Night



YouTube video includes full recordings of all seven carols as performed by the arranger.

ISBN 9781513455938. 8.75x11.75 inches.

A sparkling collection of 35 Celtic airs, ballads, reels, jigs and slip jigs arranged for solo flatpick guitar. Written in notation and tablature and includes access to an online recording of each selection.

This great collection of Celtic tunes also contains notes on each tune, performance notes, and a bibliography. Music is easy to read, and the fingerings are superbly edited. The selection of tunes is varied and includes Irish traditional, O'Carolan tunes, an original by Larry Mallette, music from the Scottish Oswald Collection, from Bunting, Thomas Connallon, O'Neill and the Scottish Athole Collection.
Titles: Blind Mary, Carolan's Draught, Dilligaf's Fancy, Drowsy Maggie, Fanny Power, Flower of Edinburgh, Gordon's Tune, Granu Weal, Jhon Come Kisse Me Noue, King of the Fairies, Lady Iveach, Merrily Kiss the Quaker, Mrs. Crofton, Parisot's Hornpipe, Rights of Man, South Wind, Star of County Down, Trip to Sligo
Tripping Up The Stairs - Will Ye Run Awa' Wi' Me.

Song List: Annie Laurie Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch The Arran Boat Song The Ash Grove Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Boolavogue Cait Ni Dhuibhir Childgrove Danny Boy Down By The Salley Gardens Farewell The Foggy Dew (st and nd settings) For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name Gentle Annie Highland Mary Jock O' Hazeldean The Lark In The Clear Air The Last Rose Of Summer Logan Water MacPherson's Farewell Mary, Young and Fair The Minstrel Boy My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife The Parting Glass Princess Augusta The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow Rosin The Beau The Shepherd's Wife Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Among Them All The Skye Boat Song The South Wind Two Irish Mazurkas (Sonny's Mazurka and Tommy Peoples' Mazurka) The Wild Geese The Wren

ISBN 9781513459400. 8.75x11.75 inches.

This book contains 30 traditional to modern Celtic tunes arranged in either simple melodic lines with suggested accompaniment chords, or stand-alone melody/chord solos. From rollicking reels and jigs to tender ballads, these Celtic Gems will appeal to the intermediate to advanced mandolinist and their audiences. With a little imagination, the up-tempo melodic tunes could be effectively rendered with drums and electric bass a la Pentangle or Fairport Convention; conversely, three or four of the solo arrangements would provide a tasteful set within a mandolin recital. Take your pick! Presented in standard notation and tablature in mandolin and guitar-friendly keys, these settings provide a masterclass in 4-course instrumental arranging. The authors online recording of each piece is included with this stellar collection. Includes access to online audio.

A collection of Scottish tunes from the nineteenth century and earlier have been carefully selected for their suitability on harp. They lay well under the fingers, are enhanced by the rhythmic and tonal properties of the plucked string and its overtones, and are musically interesting. Airs were chosen for their melodic beauty. Arrangements are traditional in style with ornamented melodies, open chords, and spare harmonies. Tunes are given in two keys, one in all naturals or one sharp, the other in one or two flats. Suggestions for fingering are given, levers or pedals need to be set only at the beginning of each piece, except for the Boat Songs, which require one lever or pedal change. Finally, historical and performance notes on the music are provided, together with a list of sources that are available from U.S. or Scottish distributors.
Table of Contents:
Highland Boat Song and Arran Boat Song (medley), MacDonald Lord of the Isles, Mary Young and Fair, Soldier?s Joy, Garthlands, Niel Gow?s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife, Cradle Song, and St. Mungo?s Welcome to Scott Skinner.

A DADGAD Christmas is a collection of 5 holiday songs arranged for the guitar in the DADGAD tuning. Each piece highlights a different technique in the arrangement and is paired with a breakdown of the techniques used and practice methods. Songs are scored in notation and TAB and include: Joy To The World; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Silent Night; Snow on Christmas; The Holly and the Ivy.

Perfect for the budding fingerstylist looking to expand their repertoire with some holiday tunes or to gain new skills in open tunings. By completing this book, you'll have both new songs to perform and a deeper understanding of the instrument.

A collection of gems -- some familiar and some are unusual, all are traditional tunes from Britain. The solos are superb and the ensemble arrangements are awesome. This book can be utilized by players of beginning to intermediate level. Keys of C, G or D.
Solos: Short-Coated Mary, Fear a'Bhata (The Boatman), Loch Earn, The Skylark, The Electric Jig (by Robin Ellis), and Munro's Rant.
Duet: Rosin the Beau (an exquisite arrangement).
Trios: Oran Sniomhaidh (Spinning Song), Braigh Loch Iall (Braes of Locheil), Picking of Sticks/Cuckolds All in a Row, Be Thou My Vision, Dargason, and June Apple.

Carolan tunes arranged for harp and one or two melody instruments. Full and interesting harp accompaniments that support the melody instruments, making these great for performing. This unique collection is arranged in period style with the harmonies, ornaments and variations as they might have been played in Dublin taverns and Irish country houses around 1800. The original 1796 version of Carolan?s Concerto is included in both solo harp versions as well as concerto form. The range of pieces include ancient modal harp airs (Bridget Cruise, First Air) to the elegant High Baroque (Mrs. Judge) to lively planxties as jigs and hornpipes (Planxty George Brabazons). The arrangements can be heard on Ensemble Musica Humana?s CD: Turlough O?Carolan- A Life in Song, performed on flute, whistle, recorder, uilleann pipes and harp. Flute and recorder parts are by EMH performers Lidia Chang and Laura Osterlund.

Harp & Flute, Recorder or Whistle: Carolan?s Concerto, Planxty Burke, Dr. John Stafford (Carolan?s Receipt), Planxty O?Rourke, Bridget Cruise, First Air, Sheebeg and Sheemore, Mrs. Judge, Eleanor Plunkett, Bridget Cruise, Third Air, Fanny Power

Flute & Whistle Duo: George Brabazon First & Second Airs,

Harp Solos: Hewlett (?Hulets Health? from Bunting, 1809), Carolan?s Concerto (from Bunting, 1796)